Economick: a new generation of shuttle kilns

摘要

A project launched in July 2016 with European financing under the UFE15-CCM_IT_000104 Economick programme had the ambitious aim of developing a shuttle kiln for firing sanitaryware and tableware that would have comparable levels of specific fuel consumption to a tunnel kiln. The project leader Setec presented the results on 19 June this year during an event held in Civita Castellana. The main sanitaryware producer companies in the Lazio ceramic cluster had the opportunity to observe the 9 cubic metre prototype of the Economick shuttle kiln in operation in the factory of Kerasan, a well-known sanitaryware manufacturer based in the cluster and a partner in the project. The kiln was tested here for 6 months with the aim of monitoring consumption and productivity levels in single firing of sanitaryware.