ABOUT TERREAL

Terreal manufactures a wide range of terracotta products for design roofing, structure, façades and the decoration of buildings inthe residential, service and agricultural sectors. Terreal is a group of international brands, terracotta specialists: Guiraud, Tuiles Lambert, TBF, Ludowici, Ceramicas del Ter, San Marco Laterizi, and TBF Malaysia.

Terreal in figures:

> 2 200 employees, 1 600 of them in France, > 22 industrial units, > 385 million euros turnover in 2005, > 10% annual growth over the last sevenyears> 25% of turnover from internationalbusiness,> 4 foreign subsidiaries > 3 sales offices > networks of distributors in more than50 countries

A centre for research, design and development (

CRED

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> The breeding ground for new façade solutions
Shamal® prototype sunscreen Terreal's Centre for Research,Design and Development,based near the Revel factoryand the clay pit, brings all the company's know-how together at the disposal of the most ambitious architectsand engineers in order to takeup their innovative ideas and enrich their creative practice with solutions adapted to easy industrialization. TheCRED does not hesitate tostudy new concepts in terra- cotta façades whenever thisis justified by the scale of the project. The CRED has already set up this "customized" procedure, dedicated entirely to the cus-tomer, to develop a moiré pink colour, thin cladding products, a metallic surface treatment, new sections, and more.The CRED makes numerous contributions to Terreal: > design of new product models, using advanced tools such asComputer Aided Design and rapid prototyping > experimental trials on pilot lines to verify matching of process to prod-uct and validate the choice of production line> performance assessment tests enabling the most precise char-acterization of the product, thus enabling monitoring of quality throughout the life of the product.> The Centre for Research, Design and Development is also rich-ly endowed with scientific know-how and experience recog-nized by the leading materials science academics in the domainof terracotta.

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