“Matrix” of large-size tiles and stones: Viglacera’s excellent solution

In general, consumers want to tile their homes and kitchens with the best, most beautiful, and most luxurious surface materials within their financial capacity. Large-sized tiles and stones are one of the top choices because they create a unique, luxurious look for the interior, completely different from small-sized tiling products, which have many joints, fragments, and are difficult to clean.

However, even when buying large-sized tiles, there may still be many unexpected problems during use such as: the kitchen countertop surface is cracked, discolored due to absorption of detergents, coffee, tea, and colored condiments such as soy sauce and fish sauce; or the bathroom wall is soaked with water and spreads to the adjacent walls.

Even products with strong brands and high prices still have problems with light color seepage. Regarding this, construction material experts point out that the basic cause is that the production technology from factories has not yet completely overcome the core structural bonding factor of the product.

Responding to the “pains” that consumers encounter in the tiling materials market, Viglacera has invested in the world’s most modern technology line – Continua+ by SACMI (Italy).

As a result, in September 2023, Viglacera surprised the market by launching large-sized sintered stone products under the Vasta Stone brand. The outstanding advantages of sintered stone are many unique secrets in raw shaping technology, plus the product firing process in a nearly 300-meter long furnace system of SACMI. The overall unique technological chain has made the core structure of the sintered stone solid and uniform. Comprehensively suppressing the phenomenon of color and water absorption.

On the same launch day, Vasta Stone also set a record for "The largest sintered stone slab in Vietnam" with dimensions of 1,600mm x 3,310mm , (recorded by Vietnam Record).

The size is "super large" compared to most other products on the market, but the flexible product thickness from 6mm - 10mm - 20mm has created a new tiling product that breaks all design barriers, bringing a liberal look to the construction space.

Exactly 1 year later, in September 2024, Viglacera continued to upgrade the product to a new level of quality when successfully producing Vasta Stone sintered stone with a vein structure in the skeleton.

Flexible thickness (from 6mm - 10mm - up to 20mm), but with almost absolute flatness, perfectly simulating the effect of magnetic veins deep in the stone grain, throughout the thickness of the product, making Vasta Stone similar to the stone entities in the most beautiful mountain regions in the world such as Alps, Carrara ..., encouraging endless creativity in the architectural world.

In addition, Continua+ technology has the secrets to completely eliminate negative cracks. Thereby, completely preventing water and dirt from seeping in. Vasta Stone also does not use chemicals in production or surface treatment of products. This is a great advantage for Vasta to be able to export to the US, Australia and Europe markets, but at the same time imposes higher consumption criteria for the domestic market. All of these have created "plus points" for the ultimate goal of contributing to limiting the exploitation of stone resources.

In its history, Viglacera has conducted many famous M&A deals such as acquiring Long Hau Granite Tile Factory in 2010; acquiring My Duc Ceramic Tile Factory from a Singaporean company in 2017. In 2021, Viglacera continued to acquire Bach Ma Ceramic Tile Factory from a Malaysian enterprise, and changed its name to Viglacera - Eurotile Tile Factory.

Through these deals, Viglacera increased the total capacity of its 7 tile factories to 43 million m2/year, officially entering the TOP 20 largest tile manufacturers in the world. At the same time, the Eurotile brand with the image of "Ceramic Tile Masterpiece" was also officially launched, becoming a model product of large-size tiles in the Vietnamese market.

Viglacera produces two lines of large-size tiles: the first line is under the Viglacera brand; the second line is called Eurotile brand large-size tiles. Thanks to their superior size compared to regular tiles, both lines help enhance the unique experience for customers.

The easily recognizable advantage of Viglacera large-size tiles is that when applied in construction, the final product is a tiled panel that always has a seamless pattern, minimizes the number of dividing lines, and is easy to clean during use.

With the naked eye, it is not difficult to see that Viglacera large-size tiles have many outstanding features. That is thanks to the printed patterns on the tile body with a whiteness of 35%, creating a subtle color transition.

A series of perfect technology and raw materials have been used in the production of large-size Viglacera tiles. Such as using 100% high-quality dry quartz crystal glaze imported from Spain, which minimizes the amount of water absorbed into the tile body, making the tile body completely stable despite its large size. Transparency - thanks to high-quality glaze, makes natural light reflect deeper and more eye-catching.

The method of forming flat PCR bricks with a strength of up to 450 kg/cm², plus a long kiln system, longer firing cycle, firing temperature of about 1,205 degrees Celsius is the final perfect plus point that makes Viglacera large-size bricks associated with high-quality technical properties such as waterproof, non-warping, making the construction process easy, creating the flattest & most beautiful surface effect possible.

It is not by chance that Eurotile large-sized tiles are known as “Masterpieces of Ceramic Tiles”. Right from the first appearance, experts highly appreciated this product as a source of creative inspiration in interior and exterior design, enhancing the value of living space.

Although Eurotile owns thousands of different design collections, they all have one thing in common: The designs and patterns always contain the delicate beauty of the West with its generous and elegant lines, while also exuding cosmic motifs with natural stone, wood, and cloud veins inherent in nature, expressed in elegant and delicate colors... Each Eurotile collection contains a story behind it about the operation of clean energy flows, together conveying a positive message about protecting the natural world for future generations.

Eurotile ceramic tiles can be exported strongly to Europe, America, Australia, places known as “natural stone paradise”, because it has superior properties compared to natural stone itself such as fire resistance, impact resistance, scratch resistance, surface cleaning ability, chemical resistance. That is about depth. In terms of surface properties, the sensory effects on the surface such as smoothness, gloss or matte glaze products, rough structure… are all very sharp and have their own style, very recognizable compared to most of the rest of the market.

In addition, while natural stone always has color differences between slabs and difficulty in uniformity in patterns, Eurotile large slabs - produced on a white brick base of up to 55% help all products achieve uniformity and perfection in color and pattern, even when produced in large quantities. In addition, while natural stone requires meticulous care and is still at risk of cracking, Eurotile large slabs do not require much maintenance because of their hardness, flexibility, and load-bearing capacity.

These are all the reasons why Eurotile has been present in demanding markets around the world, through the Eurotile Center and Viglacera Center systems and more than 200 agents spread across the country such as Hanoi , Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Can Tho, Vinh, Quang Ninh and a series of large cities across the country. Thereby positioning products in high-end construction projects associated with famous and prestigious real estate brands in Vietnam.