GRAND PRIX 2010 - 2012

The Awards ceremony for the ninth Casalgrande Padana Grand Prix International architecture award took place on 11th May, at Spazio CityLife in Milan....

A NEW STEP FORWARD IN THE AREA OF BIOACTIVE CERAMICS

That’s a real first for Cersaie 2012: Bios Self Cleaning Ceramics®, the new range of self-cleaning porcelain stoneware tiles....

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Renzo Piano’s work viewed through two of his projects Carried out with Casalgrande Padana. Once again, “Percorsi in ceramica” focuses its attention on the relationship binding Casalgrande Padana to the design process and output....

NEW!!! SOTTILE

SOTTILE is an innovative line of last generation ceramic materials and includes fully vitrified porcelain stoneware slabs characterised by a reduced thickness of only 4.5 mm....

NEW!! NEWOOD

With the new series, Newood, our intensive research and experimentation work in the domain of technologies, colours and decorations continues to characterize the glazed porcelain stoneware of the Granitoker line......

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Grand Prix and Bios®, the quest for excellence. An architecture contest and an antibacterial ceramic slab:two stories about Casalgrande Padana’s work style.

CASALGRANDE PADANA AND ITS COMMITMENT TO SAVE THE COUNTRY

A very current book by Ermete Realacci guides the readers through the Italian companies that successfully ventured on an alternative path to exit the crisis. Among the protagonists, the book described the ceramic industry in the words of Franco Manfredini

GALLERY 4

Galleria 4 “Home solutions” is available starting today; the slideshow of residential solutions is broken down by typology (bathrooms, kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and exteriors). Order your free copy now.

PRODUCT OF THE YEAR 2011, BIOS IS ON THE GERMAN PODIUM

Its name is Produkt des Jahres2011 and it is the much appreciated award organized by the authoritative magazine Fliesen und Platten, the leading magazine on the German market in the field of products and technologies for architectural ceramic applications

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Old House Monographic issue of the Casalgrande Padana Magazine focused on the architectural renovation project carried out by Kengo Kuma in the company’s production site.

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Architecture and New Products. Four innovative proposals and great attention to the world of design and engaged architecture are at the heart of the magazine published by Casalgrande Padana.

OLD HOUSE

Located inside the Casalgrande Padana production site, the Old House is the result of an interesting requalification project by Kengo Kuma.....

New! Architecture

The Granitogres line further expands its range with the Architecture series, a collection of ceramic tiles that is definitely meant for design, unwinding in a now conception offering based on colour and finish....

New! Amazzonia

The intense research and testing effort deployed for high technical and aesthetic content ceramic elements featuring in the Pietre Native line finds a new form of expression in the Amazzonia series.....

New! Terre Toscane

With its new Terre Toscane series, Casalgrande Padana continues its intense research and experimenting commitment that is crucial for the Pietre Native high technical and aesthetic content line....

New! Les Plages

The outstanding element to the new Les Plages collection is the material layer on the glossy surface, a quotation of the slightly relief-like effect of grains on bright and polish treated wood...

Ceramic Tiles of Italy. Metamorfosi

From 12th to 17th April, on the occasion of “I Saloni 2011” Ceramic Tiles of Italy. Metamorfosi Casalgrande Padana participates in the exhibition With the >2x2x2 sulle vie del Sud installation designed by Tamassociati

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The CCCloud grand opening symbolically closed the intense calendar of events for the 50th anniversary of Casalgrande Padana. Let’s hear about it from its very protagonists....

Bios Antibacterial Ceramics Selected for ADI Design Index

Casalgrande Padana is particularly honoured to communicate that the ADI Permanent Design Observatory selected Bios Antibacterial Ceramics as a product to be published in the ADI Design Index 2010.

Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud by Kengo Kuma. The Inauguration

On 2nd October 2010, the spotlights of international architectural culture focussed on the small industrial town of Casalgrande, in the province of Reggio Emilia, where “Casalgrande Padana”, the manufacturer of ceramic products, is based.

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2010 is a particularly important year full of events at Casalgrande Padana, since it celebrates its first 50 years of business.

Interviews with Kengo Kuma, Alfonso Acocella, Luigi Alini

It is Kengo Kuma himself gave a video-interview on the meaning of the very “Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud”, a new gate to the ceramics district that the Casalgrande Padana company decided to donate to the community and the territory.

CCC Wall Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of Casalgrande Padana, the first work in Italy by architect Kengo Kuma will be inaugurated soon in the Sassuolo-Casalgrande ceramics district.

Diamante Magico at La Triennale di Milano

An installation designed by Studio 5+1 AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo interprets the theme proposed by the exhibition "Ceramic Tiles of Italy - Playground", to be held at Palazzo della Triennale, from April 14th to 19th.

Kengo Kuma at Interni Think Tank

An installation and a conference by the great Japanese architect Presenting his first Italian work At the University of Milan, during Milan Design Week

Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud

Kengo Kuma, assisted by Casalgrande Padana, makes its first work in Italy. The great Japanese architect with the company to celebrate its 50 years in the business

Bios awarded in Germany

Bios won the AIT Innovation Award for “Architecture and Building” in Essen and the AIT Innovation Award for “Architecture and Flooring” in Hanover, two important awards.

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