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| Raw Materials Processing and Storage |
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| Raw materials used for manufacturing floor tiles are mainly different types of clays, quartz, sand, feldspar, talc, calcite, zinc oxide, barium carbonate, zirconium silicate and blinders, deflocculates, dyes etc. These are tested in the laboratory after receiving for physical and chemical parameters and compared with standards |
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| Batching & Grinding |
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| The production cycle begins with the batching and mixing of days, quartz sands, feldspars and colouring oxides, reduced to fine and homogeneous powders by means of a wet-grinding process. The careful control of the parameters of the suspensions thus obtained guarantees the dimensional stability of the title in the subsequent firing phase. |
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| Spray - Drying and Pressing |
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| The aqueous suspension thus formed is dried in spray-dryers, producing a granular powder suitable for the pressing process. The coloured powders, loaded on the press by means of computerized batching systems, are compacted at high pressure into isostatic moulds that ensure the perfect homogeneity of the ceramic body. |
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| Glazing, Printing and Decoration |
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A ceramic tile is covered by a thin vitreous coating called glaze. In the manufacturing
process of floor tile it is achieved by applying layers of special mixtures on green tiles. To eliminate possible defects of the surface, the green tile is first coated with a material called ENGOBE. Next step of application is called base glaze. It is prepared by grinding specific
Composition of various raw material, frit & binders. After milling the materials to
get required particle size distribution, glaze materials are sieved and de ironed with Strong magnets. After adjusting its density as per pick up weight, engobe and base glaze are applied on a hot green tile coming out of vertical drier on a glaze line. Theology of glaze slip prepared, is checked and glaze line application is commenced after matching trial tile with master tile. After base glaze application, a number of decorations are applied as per requirement. At the end of glaze line, backwash is applied on the lower face of tile. The function of backwash is to prevent sticking of tile material to the rollers of the kiln. After the glaze application, the green glaze tiles are transferred to the Kiln with the help of a transfer car. |
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| Automatic Sizing Machine |
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| Pieces under going in a rectification process on their edges with shemphring on line. |
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| Product Development Cell |
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| Round the clock work is to ensure the wide range of tiles, available in different application based product types, numerous sizes, colours, decorations, surfaces and special trims in order to meet all the contemporary building and architectural requirements. From residential floorings to large public building surfaces from bathroom and kitchen wall tiling to urban furnishing, DecoLight has the right product for every use. |
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| R & D |
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A company’s success stems from its passion for research. It is in the laboratory that man and technology merge into the original synthesis of a new product. DecoLight's laboratories, where research is endless and experimentation is incessant are the heart of the company. It is there that the most avant-garde technical and aesthetic solutions are approved and it is there that tests are carried out, ensuring the products comply with the main international standards.
>Quality: Offering the best
>Innovation: Always ahead
>Design: A taste for style
>Commitment: Environment friendly |
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| Firing |
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Thanks to a process that takes place at a temperature of more than 1210°C, a product is obtained with excellent mechanical resistance, free of porosity and thus resistant to abrasion, strains and chemical attack. The final shape, strength and other characteristics of the tile are obtained by firing.
Here the glazed green tiles are fired at 1100 C - 1200 C in gas-fired kilns. In the firing kiln, tile undergoes various phase such as (a) Transformations and reactions like loosing the water of crystallization, (b) formation of crystalline body phase and(c) Vitreous glaze surface. The resultant fired tile with glossy surface and hard body is obtained in this process. The firing process is adjusted in such a way that eliminates water & carbonic material from tile without affecting the output. The shrinkage of body also takes place without giving any cracks in the tile. |
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