New SACMI Tiles Lab Inaugurated
On Wednesday 14th October 2026 SACMI/IT officially inaugurated its new ceramics lab. After the ribbon cutting, guests were given a guided tour of the Tiles Lab – fully renovated in 2026 – and the other facilities that make up SACMI’s new ceramic product and process development ecosystem: a true “pilot factory” where technology and materials can be tested and their performance verified under realistic industrial conditions. “Through this revamped lab, we aim to provide our customers with a dedicated facility for work, experimentation and assessment”, points out Paolo Mongardi, President of SACMI. “The Tiles Lab was established to allow us to work alongside companies and systematize technologies, skills, automation and services. It’s an investment designed to drive the expansion of the global ceramics industry by fostering the development of new products, processes and production models”.
SACMI’s new Tiles Lab merges state-of-the-art technologies for forming, decoration, quality control and digital process management. From the high-productivity Continua+ forming line to the Deep Digital Line, from SACMI-Italvision vision systems to the new Control Room, the Tiles Lab enables interconnection of machines, processes, quality control and data throughout all the key stages of product development. Innovative end-of-line solutions featuring robotic tile/slab sorting, packaging and picking systems complete the plant. All this is part of a broader ecosystem that focuses on automation of factory workflows: for example, the new SACMI automated warehouse is a true FlowHub that illustrates the Group’s trailblazing development of intralogistics solutions. These include the new, ceramic-specific FlowCARE material handling and order preparation systems that use using automated vehicles and humanoid robots to coordinate flow management, from warehouse to picking and final shipping.