Parexgroup provides professionals of the sector a constructive solution for waterproofing and subsequent ceramic tiling in shower trays. This article reviews application process and set of products that will help this process to be faster and more efficient, eliminating dampness.

Application Process

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Initially, the shower tray has to be removed if you want to replace it with ceramic tile, leaving a healthy and rough surface free of grease, oil, dust and loose particles. Once we have a stable, clean and resistant support, 221 LANKOIMPER CAPA GRUESA will be used, a waterproofing mortar in thick layer with extended working time. With this product, we will make half round on the perimeter in order to tensions that occur in the walls and floors meet, and re-grow the ground while we slope toward the sink.

Next step is to seal the sink properly, in order to prevent future leaks. To accomplish this, 534 LANKOPOX MASILLA will be used, a bicomponent epoxy putty for joints of high strength, unalterable to water and high adhesive strength.

Then, to ensure the entire area an armed system should be applied, 228 LANKOIMPER FLEX and MALLA RENODECO. First one, is a bicomponent flexible waterproofing mortar in thin layer that allows light movements. The second one is a fiberglass mesh acrylic impregnated with a 5x5mm light, which offers excellent resistance to tensile strength and elongation.

After 48 hours of waterproofing, you should place new ceramic tiles with LANKOCOL FLEXIBLE, a powerful and deformable tile adhesive of mixed binders. Finally, to complete the process, it is necessary grouting the ceramic coating with LANKOLOR JUNTA FINA, a cemented, colored grout applied in thicknesses up to 6 mm and available in 25 colours.

With this solution Parex offers an option for professionals that take care of the whole process of waterproofing and tiling in shower trays in particular baths, as well as, for communities, in which case we have LANKOLOR EPOXI for placing and grouting ceramic tiles.

From September 18th through the 22nd, Andreu World will exhibit in the housing sector of the Valencia Fair. The first news of this year, is the changing status of the stand (Pab 3 Level 2 booth A31), which this year will be moved from pavilion and will be located within the common area dedicated to the National Design Awards. This sector brings together qualified international companies recognized for their work in the most powerful forums in the field of design.

For this occasion, Andreu World is developing an innovative and creative space that will merge spaces in & out of our own home. This will create a different environment and lifestyle that play within our latest collection of chairs and tables designed by Patricia Urquiola, Lievore Altherr Molina, Piergiorgio Cazzaniga or by the Studio Andreu design team.

Within the Andreu World booth, we will generate five distinct areas:

Home Office, Living Room, Kitchen, Living and Outdoor. These spaces will act as different proposals that integrate product that is designed for these areas of our own home.

In parallel, the Feria Valencia stand will host on

Tuesday September 18th the International Design Contest Awards. This year, Renato Siqueira, Director of the Brazilian Association of Architectural Studies (ASBEA), Miguel Otero, Director of the Forum of Leading Brands, Viviana Narotzky, President of ADI FAD, Diego Gronda, Rockwell Group Creative Director in Europe and Gracia Cardona, Director of Design Journal blog will be participating in the award ceremony.Projects “Wooden Horse” and “Folding Rules” winners of this year’s competition out of 200 participants.

The Andreu World stand at the Feria Habitat Valencia has welcomed the awards ceremony for the 12^th Annual Andreu World International Design Competition. The jury has awarded a first and second prize and four special mentions in this year’s competition. After long deliberation, members of the Jury have highlighted 2 different proposals with complementary values. On one hand, the value of ideas and on the other hand, the realistic approach to product design.

The first prize has been award to the project “Wooden Horse” from Laurent Divorne (Switzerland). The project “Folding Rules” from Thierry Gossuin (Belgium) has won the second prize.

The jury awarded first prize to “Wooden Horse” because it’s valued versatility of a proposal that offers the opportunity to have elegantly stacked stools. The jury highlighted the project to be a simple and fun piece, a suggestive proposal that connects to your childhood. Aesthetically, it is a versatile piece that can fit in many different settings and evokes an essence of luxury in the world and nature which makes a highly symbolic design in one piece.

The jury highlighted “Folding Rules” because of how this folding chair used wood to provide a simple solution to their composition. This very form of bending wood helps create this structure and gives the piece simplicity and harmony. Its configuration allows flat packing easy user installation.

Finally, the jury awarded four honorable mentions to “Armchair Ergues” Damian Rodriguez Mendez (Spain), Leonardo Colucci (Shanghai, China) with “Koko”, “Fold” by Charles O. Job (Zürich, Switzerland) and the project “Veer stool” of Samir Skalli (UK). The jury highlighted the cleverconstruction of these pieces, highlighting its functional design and ease of production, the care in detailsand proportions as well as its materialization.

In each piece, the jury considered each innovative contribution in the fields of design, product quality, technology and manufacturing processes, as well as originality in the pieces. The first and second prizes are awarded 3,000 euros and 2,000 euros respectively.

The event this year has brought together contestants from all over the world and about 200 projects.

The Andreu World International Design Competition has become an event that brings together young professionals from all fields of design, who present their best creations in a competition that rewards creativity, which makes it a launching pad for novice creators.

Wedi is present at Cersaie 2012 with a novelty called Fundo Plano, it is a plain shower system currently on the market.

It is a drainage system integrated in factory, only 65 mm in height. With the renewal, for example those taking place in existing buildings where every centimeter counts, this innovation is unbeatable. This product offers all the advantages of all wedi products: 100% waterproof through versatile and simple application.

In the picture, Stephan Wedi, owner and CEO of the company and Álvaro Alonso, Europe Manager, who intruduces the new products.

Wedi is present at Cersaie 2012 with a novelty called Fundo Plano, it is a plain shower system currently on the market.

It is a drainage system integrated in factory, only 65 mm in height. With the renewal, for example those taking place in existing buildings where every centimeter counts, this innovation is unbeatable. This product offers all the advantages of all wedi products: 100% waterproof through versatile and simple application.

In the picture, Stephan Wedi, owner and CEO of the company and Álvaro Alonso, Europe Manager, who intruduces the new products.

Interview with Andrea Varagnolo, Marketing Director of Fila, who presents us the new products in Cersaie 2012, on one hand the product PW 10 for the aplication on natural stones and the other hand the product PD15 , which is intended for Lappato ceramic tiles protecting very well the surface and keeping the brightness and the color of the original tile.

909 exhibitors in 176,000 square metres. The top appointment, the Lectio Magistralis by Eduardo Souto de Moura,

The opening events on Tuesday 25 with the economic convention and the international press conference.

The 2012 edition of Cersaie, the International Salon of Ceramics for Architecture and Bathroom Furnishings, kicks off in Bologna's trade fair centre from 25 to 29 September. This year, its thirtieth edition, the world's key event for the distribution system, interior designers, architects and installers is sold out, despite the international economic crisis.

The trade fair, promoted by Confindustria Ceramica in collaboration with BolognaFiere and organised by Edi.Cer., occupies an exhibition space covering 176,000 square metres. 909 exhibitors are on show, and for the first time more than 30% are foreigners, from 32 different countries, representing all five continents.

They include 474 manufacturers of tiles (the majority of exhibitors, 52.1%), 292 bathroom furnishings (32.1%) and, in smaller percentages, businesses supplying raw materials, laying equipment, publishing and services.

During the 2011 edition, the five-day event saw 113,165 accesses, with 81,552 visitors including 24,907 foreigners from 147 different countries.

Opening the 2012 edition of Cersaie, on Tuesday 25 September, is the economic convention “Ripartire dal Made in Italy” ("Starting again from Made in Italy"), presented in collaboration with The European House -Studio Ambrosetti, scheduled for 11.00 at the Europauditorium in the Palazzo dei Congressi. Taking partin the event, opened by the Chairman of BolognaFiere Duccio Campagnoli and the Chairman of the Emilia-Romagna Region Vasco Errani, will be the Italy’s Civil Service Minister Filippo Patroni Griffi, the Chairmanof Confindustria Giorgio Squinzi and the Chairman of Confindustria Ceramica Franco Manfredini. Thediscussion, also with the participation of Irene Tinagli, professor of Business Economics at the Carlos IIIUniversity in Madrid, will be chaired by the Director of Class CNBC Italia Andrea Cabrini.

Again on Tuesday 25 there is another of the Salon's key appointments, the International press conference Ceramics of Italy, held at 6.30 pm in the Galleria dell’Architettura – Gallery 25-26. This event will behosting the Chairman of Confindustria Ceramica Franco Manfredini, the Vice Chairman Alessandro Scopetti, Chairman of Promotional Activities and Trade Fairs Vittorio Borelli, the Director of ICE-AgenziaRoberto Luongo, councillor for Production Activities of the Emilia-Romagna Region Gian Carlo Muzzarelli and the Director of Confindustria Ceramica Armando Cafiero. At the end of the conference the Ceramics of Italy Journalism Awards will be giving prizes to members of the international press, and the exhibitions onshow at the Architecture Gallery will be inaugurated.

And this year too there is a rich and varied calendar of events in the Costruire, abitare, pensare (Building, Dwelling, Thinking) cultural programme organised within Cersaie, including appointments with important

international names in architecture and design. This begins on Tuesday 25 with the unusual couple Bruce Sterling and Cini Boeri, two masters respectively of science fiction literature and Italian design: the father ofcyberpunk and the ambassadress of Made in Italy will be discussing matters in the Galleria dell’Architetturafrom 2.00 pm. The following day, Wednesday 26, at 10.00 am, again in the Architecture Gallery, the

appointment is with the lightness and experimentation of Shigeru Ban, the Japanese architect famous for his living solutions adopted following natural disasters. Not to be missed in the afternoon, from 3.00 pm in the same location, the “Poetic Engineering” event with Alberto Meda and his essential design.

We have spoken with Emi Boix, Manager of the Emac, which is a leading company in profiles and trims for wall and floor tiles.

Emac presented his last innovations in Cersaie 2012, the event turned one more year into the point of indispensable meeting for professionals of the ceramic sector, and we could know the last bets of the manufacturers. One of the innovations is the range made by Francis Montesinos, it is a question of a collection of decorative profiles for stairs that it tries to embellish the auction of a very simple and discreet way in the own stairs. Later Emi Boix presented us the stair nosing profile with photoluminiscent strip, ideal for public areas with heavy foot traffic.

The business manager of Levantine, Javier Guardiola close to the rest of the equipment of export; explains us which is his bet in the Italian fair Cersaie 2012. One of the principal aims of Levantine during the last months and during the fair, it is to continue defending the position of our brand, as the company with more experience on the market, in the manufacture, sale and installation of porcelanico of thin thickness. One of the new series treats itself about a white marble on a support of 5 mm.

The second innovation is a product with an effect of mike metallic texture, which remembers us a fabric, called Cosmos, that it serves as decorative complement done on three base colors, with ended in silver and gold, undoubtedly a product of the mas elaborated inside the lineas of thin thickness presented in Italy.

In the fair of Cersaie 2012 we had the opportunity to speak with Juan Vilanova, Comercial Manager of Boing, who presents us his new products with characteristics such as for example originality, flexibility and their material can addapt any color.

Between them we stand out the flexible washbasin with booths and the orbital model, a washbasin with laundry bag to save space in little bathrooms.

The Export Manager of Samo, Giovanni Orlani, shows us some products presented in the fair Cersaie 2012, between them the collection Dolce Vita which has made with classical lines and patterns that recall the past eras with sobriety, it combines Italian style with precious details, obsolete forms, floral screen prints.

Another showed product is more modern with other characteristics destined for anything, to say also it is very resistant and very easy to clean. This is a very functional and practice product that does not exclude elegance and aesthetics.

Enzo Valentini, Export Manager of the group Geromin, shows us some products presented in the fair Cersaie 2012 and he also presents the Industrial Group located in north of Italy close to Venice and dedicated to reproducing compact furniture pieces for kitchen and bathrooms.

The Italgraniti Group was established by merging two ceramic manutacturers (Impronta and Itangraniti), respectivily present on the market since 1975 and 1994, both companies already had a strongly consolidated image in the sector.

We have spoken with Enrico Bolcioni, Area Manager of Italgraniti Group, about the new collections presented in the Fair of Cersaie 2012.

Intermatex is a spanish company placed in Vilarreal, which is dedicated to manufacture, sell and promote a selection of ceramic materials like skirtings, mouldings, borders, etc. as well as handmade terracota flor.

Hugo Beltrán of Intermatex presents the new collection in Cersaie, the Artist Collection with six different colors and using materials as glass, stone, metalics finished..

The Palace of Versailles, in association with Google, has created the Gallery of the History of the Palace. This gallery has been realized by the study Projectiles and his walls are re-dressed in engraved panels of the tecno-surface DuPont ™ Corian®.

The project raises an interior landscape that breaks with that of the palace, always giving continuity to the principal aesthetic and geometric characteristics.

The interior landscape is defined by a system of arrangement in three superposed stratum. The base stratum explains the history and protects the works, the stratum of in way supports the works and the top stratum controls the light

The rehabilitation of the ENSAM (National Top School of Arts and Trades) is an example of architecture in harmony with a historical building since it is Cluny's Abbey. The architect responsible for the rehabilitation, Bernard Desmoulin, has chosen structures of aluminium KAWNEER to achieve a contemporary space that joins perfectly with the existing buildings

Aqua-Sense Graff presents a new sensory experience, a shower system inspired by the sense and luxury that one experiences in the SPA.

Electronic system with ceiling shower head, waterfall wall, wall waterfall and rain shower head, wall mounted RGB LED waterfall and rain shower head!

You can create a very intense precipitation central effect resembles an actual waterfall, the RGB LED changes color, giving diffuse chromatic lines to produce a calming effect in the bathroom environment. The system is controlled by a touch screen with a simple and intuitive interface to control the functions of water, changes color, music and videos.

On October 20 and 21 it was celebrated in the theatre Piccolo Arsenale of Venice, Archives and Exhibitions, the first conference on archives organised by la Biennale di Venezia – ASAC (Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts) in the context of the 13^th International Architecture Exhibition with the collaboration of Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici del Veneto – Soprintendenza Archivistica per il Veneto.

"You can't hold an exhibition, even one dedicated to the avant-garde, without having recourse to the archives," says Paolo Baratta. "For some time now, the present and the contemporary have been viewed in the light of previous experiences or of history. The conference Archives and Exhibitions, promoted by la Biennale di Venezia – ASAC, more than a technical conference, is therefore aimed at launching an indispensable instrument for cultural organisation, and will be repeated every year at each Art and Architecture Exhibition. La Biennale is thus enriched by a further, ongoing research project."

The conference began with a reflection on the use of archives in the 13^th International Architecture Exhibition, curated by David Chipperfield. The theme of the Exhibition has led the participants to reflect on themes concerning "continuity, context, and memory, and towards shared expectations." The participants were encouraged by the curator to demonstrate the importance of influence and of the continuity of cultural endeavour, to illustrate "common ideas that form the basis of an architectural culture." Many of the architects invited by Chipperfield, in creating their original proposals and installations, have drawn from material from architectural archives.

La Biennale dedicated two days to debate, divided into 5 sessions that include institutional interventions in the morning and two roundtable discussions in the afternoon.

The last session devoted to defining a future work program, which provides for seminar meetings devoted to specific aspects of the preservation and use of the archives of the twentieth century and contemporary age.

The company Regia, founded in 1988, with the development and marketing of complete collections characterized by a fresh, experimental, high-quality design, presents his new products, BIG WASHBASIN and BATIK LIGHT, the first one of them, large above counter washbasin made in lacquered LivingTec®, Tecnoglass and trasparent Vetroghiaccio® in Regia’s color palette, the second, designed by Bruna Rapisarda, is the modular version of the famous Batik, which has been in Regia’s catalogue for now 4 years. Now, with the introduction of many different sizes, Batik can be installed in any space. The starting point of Batik light, was the unique lines of the original version, Batik, in which the top, made of resin or glass, runs along the whole length of the furniture, drawing lines which are concave and convex making the series particularly interesting.

In the photography we can see the model Batik light.

The company Nemo Cassina lighting division has been present on the European market, in the Americas and in the Near and Far East through a carefully selected network of distributors and retailers.The presence of NEMO at this year's Design Village represents a key move for the repositioning and strengthening of the brand's identity. A development that demonstrates Nemo's ability to offer contemporary solutions distinguished by an immediately recognizable and original language.

The versatility of NEMO’s comprehensive catalogue is well represented by the space exclusively dedicated to the brand at the Design Village, and it is reaffirmed in the Cassina area with the newest lamps accompanying the furnishings designed by Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand. Between other offers the company shows products such as "In the wind" designed by Arihiro Miyake, it´s a lamp,whose very name conveys the essence of versatile expressiveness, an evocative object rich in aesthetic and technological content. "Carmencita" designed by Hikaru Mori, winner of the WALLPAPER Best Domestic Design Award for Best Lamp 2012. Carmencita combines craftsmanship and quality. The lamp's twin diffusers are upholstered with Others products presented for example are "Potence Pivotante" designed by Charlotte Perriand (year 1938), "Applique de Marselille", designed by Le Corbusier (year 1954), "Tru", designed by Roberto Paoli and "Nuvola", designed by Mario Bellini,  pioneered the modern trend in illuminating objects made of plastic. With great insight and creativity he designed NUVOLA, a floating mass of light that is capable of shedding light effectively yet unobtrusively. Designed in 1974 for the launch campaign of Pianeta Ufficio – the office furniture system by Mario Bellini for Marcatrè – the lamp has been revisited in terms of size and is now produced on an industrial scale by Nemo.This last product we it can see in the photography of the news.