Mota Ceramic Solutions in the spotlight

Brendan Clifford, Co-CEO of Mota Ceramic Solutions gives his view on the challenges facing the industry as a direct result of COVID-19.

Vietnam as a trading hub

In a departure from his normal column, William Hunter looks at how Vietnam is emerging from the Covid pandemic and interviews Mr John Hoang Giang of VITIS JSC about the country’s expanding influence on the tableware sector.

Kiln furniture supply and demand

In a year that had started so positively, 2020 will be long remembered by the expanding kiln furniture sector as one that put an instant halt to progress. Jahir Ahmed looks at how suppliers of this integral part of the production process are putting strategies in place for the “new normal”…

Fuels and firing technology

Rohan Gunasekera looks at how the heavy clay sector of Southern Asia is being forced into making increasingly critical choices over the type of fuel being used to fire brick-making kilns, and weighs availability alongside cost when it comes to strategizing for a future-proof factory…