SACMI has always been particularly attentive to the Middle East, an area of strong industrial expansion and sustained technological growth. To ensure this trend continues and leads to a widening of the market Sacmi constantly invests not only in first-class technology but also in human resource training and technological education at all levels, including universities, to optimise the country’s learning and research facilities.
That investment will be highlighted this coming 3rd-4th May at Tehran’s University of Science and Technology, when SACMI - as the key sponsor of two days’ in-depth practice and theory regarding the latest developments in applied ceramic technology - will be giving three important speeches analysing key topics in the ceramic industry from both an academic and a practical-technological viewpoint, to be followed up by a debate with students and industry operators: these topics will be energy saving (speaker: Ferdinando Cassani), digital decoration (speaker: Davide Medici) and thin tiles (speaker: Benedetto Spinelli).
Such themes - especially energy saving - are as topical as ever in a country such as Iran, where the cost of gas and electricity is increasing rapidly and companies are looking for ideas and innovation as well as skilled technicians who can rise to the challenge, which can often mean the difference between continuity of output and a halt in processes and production.
A vital appointment, then, for further diffusion of corporate know-how, assisting and training tomorrow’s managers and directors today, in a strategic area that will see strong expansion in the decades to come; SACMI has both a need and a duty to strengthen its market leadership in a key country that has, when it comes to ceramic knowledge and technology, always seen SACMI as a reference point.