Since it was founded in 1995, Folex International has consistently invested in production innovation and is now the leading manufacturer of handboards in Europe. The owners, the Ferriol family, started this business in Valencia having identified an opportunity to assist...

Business software provider, Kerridge Commercial Systems, has developed a version of its powerful K8 ERP solution specifically to meet the needs of small to medium sized businesses. With fully integrated trading and business management functionality tailored to retailers, merchants and...

With demand for its training courses at an all-time high, Schlüter-Systems Ltd is looking to add 40% more places across all its courses for the year to come, as well as introducing a brand-new offering.Throughout 2018, the Coalville-based tiling systems...

More than 80% of tile display specialists Vision Display’s sales are made-to-order  items, with the balance being popular display products, manufactured in advance, ready for next day delivery.  Here Dave Akerman reflects on recent advances in tiling display solutions, including...

After last month’s overview of the design trends at Cersaie (TSJ, October, page 32) this month Joe Simpson  probes two design threads: concrete-effect,and marble-effects tiles: two of the dominant categories at Bologna in 2018. Cersaie 2018 provided plenty of evidence that...

Peter Vann, Director of Ceramique Internationale, offers an informed insight into the key design trends at Cersaie. Putting aside the usual physical trials (35,000 steps in two and a half days) and the airline strikes that made leaving Cersaie 2018 a...

By David Wilson, Technical Services Manager at BAL. When selecting products for use in areas such as bathrooms where showers and, of course, wetrooms are more prevalent, it is vital to make the correct choices early to avoid future problems and...

One of the UK tile industry’s true visionaries, Fired Earth’s founder Nicholas Kneale, has died aged 71. It was back in 1983 that Kneale, with a £10,000 bank loan and four Spanish terracotta tiles, set up Fired Earth.  Combining a flair...

TSJ’s Editor, Joe Simpson, evaluates the appeal of contemporary fabric-effect tiles; a design category that Ceramic Sant’Agostino set alight with the launch of Digitalart in 2015. Two years ago, at Cersaie 2016, the hottest new tile design trend was fabric-effect tiles...

Palace Chemicals continue to be a preferred supplier to all aspects of the tiling industry for over 40 years, and is now in the rafters after its products were used on a £5 million project in Bradford city centre, to...

Eco-friendly installation products from Kerakoll proved the ideal solution when Marble and Ceramic City Ltd was appointed tiling contractor for a prestigious spa in the basement of a private London residence.   The spa was entirely done out in book-matched Calacatta...

Two new uncoupling mat solutions for problem floors have just been launched by BAL. Following the launch of the award-winning BAL Rapid-Mat in 2014, the Flexbone range offers two very different solutions to the UK market: Flexbone 2Easy and Flexbone...