Ceramics & Architecture
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Competence by Tradition. Ceramic Tiles since 1755. IAGROB BUCHTAL

Product quality 14 Partnership 22 Slip resistances 15 Digital Showroom 23 Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, USA / Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership/Beyer Blinder Belle Arcitects & Planners LLP

How designers find the necessary freedom for their creativity. With ceramics distinguishing itself by high quality and a demanding look, AGROB BUCHTAL offers architects a “raw material for architecture”, which opens immense design scope. At the same time, consistent systematic thinking creates the indispensable basis despite the great variety of products, colours and formats. The company owes its reputation to the high flexibility at the development of individual solutions and services such as, for example, the in-house planning department appreciated for decades. CREATIVE FREEDOM

Product variety for all areas of application. Ceramic facade systems Swimming pool ceramics Innovative: whether indoors or outdoors, in private or public areas. With its product portfolio, AGROB BUCHTAL covers all classic applications of the material of ceramic tiles and opens up new areas of application thanks to innovations in addition. The result is an unprecedented variety of the product range. The fact that all products are available from one supplier ensures conclusive solutions with harmonious transitions in indoor and outdoor areas. This applies to the high-quality porcelain...

CREATIVE FREEDOM Architectural ceramics High-quality ceramics for living environments Individual: great variety of colours, formats, sur faces. With the great diversity of its product range, AGROB B ­ UCHTAL creates the basis for a practically unlimited freedom of design. On the one hand, this applies to the variety of formats in the Interior Collection: modular systems from the mini-mosaic of 1 x 1 cm up to representative large-size tiles of 60 x 60 or 75 x 150 cm open up a wide spectrum of design options for giving large surfaces a rhythmic structure, setting accents or creating visual...

From professionals for professionals The in-house planning department. Ef ficient suppor t for six decades. At AGROB BUCHTAL, high-quality products and competent services are supplied. In this way, planners and architects using our products can benefit from the know-how of our in-house planning department, which has proved itself since 1952, when specifying our products. A committed team of qualified technicians, engineers, architects, designers and colour experts ensures a quick and problem-free realization of individual concepts. And as these experts are not only specialized advisers but...

CREATIVE FREEDOM Project: Emser Therme / Location: Bad Ems, Germany / Architect: 4a Architekten / Series: Geo, Chroma II

Individual production for special requirements. More than standard solutions Creative architects and planners need unlimited design scope in order to be able to realize their ideas in an appropriate manner. With approximately 20,000 possible colours and an enormous variety of formats and surfaces, AGROB BUCHTAL satisfies this requirement in most of all cases: already the standard range offers such a variety of products that almost every customer finds straight away what it is looking for. Our actual strong points, however, become apparent when innovative architectural concepts require an...

CREATIVE FREEDOM Ceramic facades Digital printing They support the realization of individual architectural concepts with ceramic elements individually manufactured with regard to colour, format and surface. It offers practically unlimited possibilities for transferring images, letterings and even photos and artistic representations on ceramic tiles. Special formats Water-jet cutting technique They are in demand both in the case of aesthetically sophisticated new buildings and at the renovation of historical buildings and are manufactured exactly according to the specifications of the...

Those who benefit from product know-how, innovation and precision. Decades of experience and trend-setting innovations are the basis of the constantly high quality of products made by AGROB BUCHTAL. Not only the tilers benefit from that, but also the real estate owners and managers. Thus, the company has established new standards not only as pioneer in the development of slip-resistant tiles and representative large formats. Surface coatings play an equally important part: they considerably facilitate cleaning and thus reduce the maintenance costs of buildings.

Product quality “Made in Germany” – that’s the standard. To p p ro d u c t s t h a n k s to m o d e r n technology With regard to quality, AGROB BUCHTAL does not accept any compromises. This is ensured by the modern manufacturing technology at the four sites in Germany where the majority of all the products, – from small mosaics up to facade elements – are produced. There, an experienced workforce of approximately 1,200 qualified employees ensures the high degree of precision that is indispensable for the production of rectified large formats along with carefully selected raw materials....

Slip Resistance for all areas of application. SLIP RESISTANCE AGROB BUCHTAL – pioneer of slip resistance. Slip-resistant tiles, marked by the new quality seal “GRIP”, are one of the core competences of AGROB BUCHTAL. Since the market launch of the first slip-resistant tiles in the 1930s by AGROB BUCHTAL, this innovation has been permanently further developed by intensive research. The results include r ­enowned prizes for exemplary surface designs, functional i ­mprovements such as low-noise and vibration-free driving on ceramic coverings as well as micro-rough special glazes for the...

HT-Coating breathing in healthy freshness. HT: the principle HT is a very durable coating which ensures an improved quality of the air. Besides the effortless elimination of dirt, tiles with HT coating make malodorous and also harmful substances in the air disappear. These pollutants are caused e.g. by cigarette smoke, ammonia, residues of sprays, formaldehyde from ­ex­‑ t tiles, etc. In conjunction with light and air humidity, the HT coating effects the transformation of noxious molecules e.g. in harmless carbon dioxide and water. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is baked onto the glaze as catalyst...