Walls and floor tiles constituted about 32% of the global ceramic industry production in 2015. The global production of ceramic tiles is expected to reach close to 18 billion square meters by 2018, growing at a CAGR of about 9% during 2015-2018. The increased production levels provide an impetus to the demand for ceramic machinery on a global scale.Although APAC is both the leading consumer and producer of ceramic ware, the ceramic machinery equipment market is concentrated in Europe, with Italy being the global manufacturer of high-quality machinery. Thus, the unrivaled position of the EU in the market is expected to sustain during the forecast period and beyond. About 30% of the production cost in the ceramic industry is directly related to energy costs. Hence, the prices of the end-products are sensitive to the energy prices. This has allowed many ceramic equipment manufacturers to offer complete turnkey solutions for plant engineering, enabling them to become energy efficient with the expertise of professional machine suppliers.

PART 01: Executive summary 6

Highlights 6

PART 02: Scope of the report 7

Market overview 7

Vendor analysis 10

Top-vendor offerings 11

PART 03: Market research methodology 13

Research methodology 13

Economic indicators 13

PART 04: Introduction 14

Key market highlights 14

PART 05: Market landscape 18

Market overview 18

Market size and forecast 18

Five forces analysis 23

PART 06: Market segmentation by product 24

Market overview 24

Shaping machinery market 25

Glazing and decoration machinery market 28

Raw material preparation machinery market 29

Storage and handling machinery market 31

PART 07: Market segmentation by end-user 32

Market overview 32

Ceramic machinery market by tile manufacturers 33

Heavy clay manufacturers 35

Ceramic sanitary ware manufacturers 36

PART 08: Geographical segmentation 38

Market overview 38

Europe 39

Asia and Middle East 40

Americas 43

Africa 44

PART 09: Market drivers 46

Adoption of PLC-based systems 46

Upward trends in end-user industries 46

Augmented demand for ceramic tiles 48

PART 10: Impact of drivers 51

PART 11: Market challenges 52

Environmental hazards in ceramic fabrication 52

Limited number of companies offer entire value chain

solutions 53

PART 12: Impact of drivers and challenges 54

PART 13: Market trends 55

Additive manufacturing of ceramics 55

Technological advances in ceramics 56

PART 14: Vendor landscape 57

Competitive scenario 57

Other prominent vendors 58

PART 15: Key vendor analysis 62

EFI Cretaprint 62

Keda Industrial Company 62

KERAjet 64

SACMI 64

SITI B&T 66

PART 16: Appendix 68

List of abbreviations 68

PART 17: Explore Technavio 69