Innovation in the ceramic industry throught the chemical reformulation

Abstract

[EN] There are two main targets in the project, the first one is about reach a better formulation for a tile given by a costumer of the Torrecid group, in this case remove the more expensive material (Kopanina), reduce the thermal expansion coefficient and reduce the final cost. For that reason, we went to the Torrecid laboratories in order to analyse the different parameters that were important for do the characterization of the raw materials that compose the tile. With their help we knew the different properties and we could begin to work with the alternative formula for the costumer. After that, we introduced the data in a software called ECHIP in order to know how many trials we needed, at the end, we analyse the formulas given by the software and we send to the client an alternative formula so they can solve their problems.