Growth fuels tile expansion - Porcelain tile production costs - part 2

摘要

The production and consumption of porcelain and vitrified tiles have registered a great rise in Asia in recent years. The drive came following higher GDP growth and development of technology with wider dimension of appeals to attract the consumers in the developing countries, specially in the Asian continent. The region became a major consumer parallel to the ccntinued higher economic growth of the regional countries. The production equipment upgraded in the main supply sources in West Europe and East Asia provided opportunities to investors with lower capital. The glaze producers and chemical manufacturers also have made stronger efforts to diversify and improve aesthetic aspects of porcelain tiles that originally became popular without glaze, according to the manufacturers.