The process of innovation proceeds without ceasing in Surfaces Group. The need to facilitate the problem-solving process, shortening the times, monitoring the variables and reducing the margins of uncertainty, resulted in the decision to create a structure capable of reproducing the real working conditions on the line in a scale model. 2013 was the foundation year of Surfaces Lab, a plant staffed by engineers, chemists and senior technical specialists working together with the aim of developing and testing new integrated solutions: so not just new products, but new combinations of products.

But the function of Surfaces Lab doesn’t end here. The organisation’s experimental vocation and flexible structure are a precious resource for customer companies which, by entrusting the production of their samples of new ceramic products to our company, support the production departments in this delicate role, avoiding costly downtimes in series production operations.

The final frontier on which Surfaces Lab is active is that of treatments certification. Ceramic companies and the market are demanding additives that can protect glaze from stains, scratches or certain temperatures. Surfaces Group is highly acclaimed for the performance of its solutions in this field, but it was the first to face the certification question in relation to the additives. Surfaces Lab is therefore responsible for testing the retention of this performance through time in order to guarantee the aesthetic and functional properties of ceramic products through time.