Z.A.O. FAYANS has signed a new agreement with the Sanitaryware Division of Siti-B&T Group for the supply of a new intermittent ASTRA kiln for firing and re-firing sanitary ware.

The division of the group working on the sanitaryware market, in which the resources and experience of SITI-B&T and SIR automations come together, strengthens the industrial partnership with the customer and gathers the initial results of the new technical and organizational offer of SITI-B&T group. 

The development of an intense technical and technological collaboration relationship with the customer combined with the special features of flexibility of the firing systems of SITI-B&T, have enabled the achievement of outstanding qualitative and quantitative parameters, with special attention to reductions in energy consumptions: all the devices comply with the set standards of the Greenergy design project of SITI-B&T.
The new ASTRA kiln, with useful loading volume of 59 m³ and a loading surface on two levels, arranged one over the other of 78 m², will indeed assist the intermittent kiln installed successfully in 2007.

The thermal machine, dedicated mainly to firing, is for a production rate of 150.000 pcsyear. With this agreement, Z.A.O Fayans will double its yearly production rate, reaching approximately 300.000 pieces per year, reinforcing its name on the market.  The production mix that currently envisages 90% of WC’s can easily be modified for future market requirements, thanks to the flexibility of the machines supplied by SITI-B&T.

Appreciating the service and the quality of the offer, Zao Fayans has renewed and reinforced its trust in SITI-B&T Group, offering it the opportunity to valorise its references on a strategic market and to successfully continue developing its name on the whiteware market.

The new line will start producing within the first few months of 2010