This Cersaie edition, held from the 20th to the 24th of September in Bologna (Italy), is having a great acceptance within the tiling world. A large number of companies, professionals from different fields and visitors have attended this event.

In this occasion, we stress the functionality of ceramic tiles, from its location to the most updating designs and formats, which make us one of the leading companies in Cersaie. Besides, we are launching Feeling Eco, our ecological version based on the responsibility with both society and environment. We have adopted several measures in order to make our products more sustainable, by minimizing the use of resources. As a sign of this cooperation, Vives has become associate member of GBCe and our products help other projects to get the certification of sustainability.

Our booth has experienced a good reception, since visitors and exhibition participants come around to examine the design and quality of the collections that we are launching. We display series such as Salonga or Kanji, ceramic woods with an up to date design. Another example of porcelain tile novelty is the Ruhr series, developed to create modern and personal spaces with the matching wall tiles in white biscuit, Essen and Dortumd series. Finally, we offer the possibility to match different sizes with Vézère porcelain tile multiformat collection, a different and easy new application of ceramics.

VIVES invests in the necessity of incorporating a program through its activities to respect and protect the environment. Society has become aware of the importance of the environment that we are surrounded by, and likewise, they demand the same from every business. Vives have invested heavily trying to lead from the front ensuring that their processes and products are more and more sustainable, through different strategies such as the implantation of zero emissions in our facilities and the reduction in the consumption of raw materials and water consumption. Specific policies have long been in place such as internal recycling of waste residuals together with water and a strict focus on energy efficiency used throughout the manufacturing processes. It is these measures and policies which we want to transmit to our clients and why we have published FEELING ECO.

Through FEELING ECO, we want to show our commitment to sustainable building, offering our clients information about our products and company in order to help them gain green certifications for their activities, according to certification systems such as VERDE or LEED.

We are able to offer the Product Environmental Declaration for our range of porcelain floor tile that offers important information about a product lifetime, required for some eco-sustainable certification systems for building such as VERDE developed by the Green Building Council- Spain (GBEe), of which Vives is a member of.

Our products can help certify the sustainability of building projects according to the international system LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design developed by the U.S. Green Building Council) through a series of points gained in the following fields.

• USE OF REGIONAL MATERIAL (MR Credit 5) Our red biscuit wall and floor tiles can help you obtain points in this field where the project is located within a 800km radius of our factories in Alcora, Castellon, Spain.
• HEAT ISLAND EFFECT (SS Credit 7.1) Many of our products have a Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) greater than 29, helping to minimize the Heat Island Effect and therefore they are particularly suited to be fixed in the exterior.
• LOW EMITTING MATERIALS (EQ Credit 4.3) Our products do not emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) due to the tiles being fired in very high temperatures helping to maintain a stable and healthy ambience in the exterior.
• RECYCLED CONTENT (MR Credit 4) Pre-consumed recycled material is incorporated into the contents of our products acording to ISO 14021.

Vives new proposal goes hand in hand with the latest trends, where wood-ceramic aesthetics is a resource that provides great verve.

This porcelain serie presented by VIVES is noted for its versatility. It is wood-ceramic combining ceramic strength with wood aesthetics. These pieces offer all the advantanges of both materials from its quality and functionality to its artistic aspect.

Design and function come together to recreate a warm and friendly atmosphere, where serenity and style offered by this product transforms any impersonal area. Salonga offers a naturalness to any place with its serie wood-ceramic, helping to transform and bring about a freshness and the natural aesthetics implicit to wood.

Salonga serie can be included within the latest tendancies, with its pieces having a unique design, and shown in five colours: Blanco, Miel, Cerezo y Antracita, in a size of 20x120cm.

As every year, VIVES will be attending the Cersaie International Exhibition, a showcase for professionals coming from different fields and coming from all around the world. This event is a meeting point for companies, architects and designers, where they can find the latest trends in ceramics. In this edition, we will show innovative proposals, following current trends and reflect all the ceramics applications.

In VIVES we champion innovation and therefore it is our aim to show a wide and assorted range of products. Due to this we place our work and dedication in bringing our latest series to our visitors and customers and at our stand they can enjoy the design and quality of our products to personalize their spaces.

All these items are part of the VIVES renovated image, which is continuing to raise interest with original series and proposals to help make the use of ceramics easier.

September, 20th – 24th. Hall E1-F2

VIVES, dedicated to following the latest interior design tendencies launches a new collection, Santorini, a collection aimed at creating warm and cosy areas.

The aesthetics have been the focus when designing this new collection with a wide range of patterns including squares, diamonds, spots... This wall tile collection with its soft colours has been inspired by the textile industry using tendencies born from the latest fashions.

It is a collection that is ideal when the objective is to achieve a warm and cosy ambience with style and personality coming together.

With the inspiration coming from the world of fashion, it goes without saying that it is current and driven from the latest design tendencies.

After the success we have received with the first edition of the Settings DVD, we have brought out a second edition.

The Settings DVD shows a wide selection of our best collections in a slideshow format. The settings show the pieces in a varied fashion so that the general public can appreciate the different uses of our product range. In this new edition, we have included our new collections such as Bamako, Candem, 1900, Titan, Plisse, Helios, Polinesia and Woodline.

You will also find products from different catalogues such as the Habitat range. The ranges on the DVD covers floor tiles, wall tiles and porcelains. The Vives tiles are the protagonists in the images adding a personal and designer touch to the image visually helping the client appreciate the pieces in a full setting.

The DVD will be available download from the Video section of the Downloads section on the VIVES website.

VIVES. Feeling Ceramics.

VIVES has inaugurated its first shop in China, in an important city in the south of the country, Guangzhou. This new store is located next to Olympic Sports Center, among the most exclusive shops and some of the main international brands.

It is made up by 190 square meters and boasts an original façade that introduces our brand in one of the most important ceramic shopping centres. This showroom which displays only VIVES products is a unique and innovative space with a great attention to detail.

The opening of the showroom took place on the 12th of june with more than 100 attendees including suppliers, clients and associates. With this new showroom VIVES aims to give the best possible service to its customers and differentiate itself in the biggest market in the world.

Together with the latest update of our website including an exclusive site for professionals of this sector, VIVES is pleased to launch its new 2011/12 General Catalogue.

VIVES introduces its new collections for the current year with its new extra large porcelain formats as well as the new 25x75 white body tiles proving to be the highlights. This new edition containing 368 pages has separate sections to facilitate the process of selecting products. VIVES has included its latest collections in each section: new floor and wall porcelain tiles, new white body wall tiles as well as ceramic wall and floor tiles.

Once again, VIVES, following its more than 50 year history, continues its efforts to provide the quality and the service which clients from all around the world have come to associate with the brand ensuring that all projects result in a successful conclusion.

A fusion of textures with wood, marble and metal all becoming ceramic

Vives introduces in a unique collection all the materials used in the most avant-garde projects for interior design. The textures and finishes have been carefully developed and all the chosen materials are solid and neutral, obtaining a warm and lasting result.

Each one has been created with two different compositions that bring together a stylized, renewed and modern 31.6x45.3 format.

Bamako offers several possible combinations, with a radical range of colours and a conceptual decoration able to adapt to any space. Silver and Gold have been introduced as a decorative element, with pieces such as Marbel Gold or Marbel Silver that have been produced using advanced technology, obtaining a decorative and innovative design that brings a unique shine, beauty, elegance and exclusivity to the ceramic tile.

It is our pleasure to present the first edition of our Newsletter, a new communication tool created to help users get closer to VIVES.

Our communication department has been working hard on this new project with the objective that it complements the existing communicative measures used by the company. The aim is to give continuous information with the latest and most relevant news, information about our products and their fixing, projects, product launches and our presence in important events.

We are sure that this Newsletter will be a vital source for both you and VIVES and our relationship.

BigMat Day took place in Madrid during the 4th and 5th of May with 120 exhibitors and almost 3000 visitors. This third edition of BigMat Day, celebrated in the Hipódromo of the Zarzuela in Madrid, spread over more than 6.000m2 . Vives participated in this event showing its latest ranges offering various aesthetic and technical possibilities with collections such as Titan floor tiles in 60x60 cm. and 45x90 cm., Helios white body wall tile in 25x75 cm. or Wood Line porcelain in 21.x89.3 cm.

Vives took part in Project Qatar 2011, the eighth edition of this international exhibition held in Doha, capital of Qatar. Celebrated from the 2nd to the 5th of May, it was one of the most important events of this year in the building sector. Project Qatar 2011 is focused in the exhibition of building materials, systems and environmental technologies. The new ceramic marbles that were presented in sizes 60x60 and 45x90 for floors and 25x75 cm. for walls are characterized by their true authentic look. Candem wall tile in 20x20 cm is a captivating collection with its elegant style. The new Vives wood ceramic range, Wood Line in 21.8x89.3 cm., presents a warm and soft design and is provided with the innate characteristics of porcelain. Finally, the entire XXL collection, in 60x120 cm presents a wide range of finishes and textures.

Vives presents the Titan collection, where style and functionality is represented by seventeen marbles, perfect for floor tiles.

A classic comes back with a contemporary elegance, representing both the majesty of a splendorous past and the avant-garde of the coming future.

Marble is the perfect option to create a fresh and light atmosphere which is intensified further when combined with the colour white. This versatile material is able to create several combinations that can be adapted to any preference, in order to achieve an original, personal and unique style.

The innate beauty of natural stone with its shine and sophistication has made it the chosen material by designers in avant-garde and minimalist settings. The collection Titan is perfect for such areas due to its wide range of different possibilities with seventeen colours and different sizes consisting of 45x45cm, 60x60cm y 45x90cm (44,3x44,3cm, 59,3x59,3cm y44,3x89,3cm rectified). Titan has become a collection with design and quality helping create settings which awaken one’s feelings.

To make the Titan collection even more complete, special pieces to complement the base tiles are also available such as Tira, Taco, Boomerang, and special compositions (Comodo and Orante) helping create truly unique settings.

Vives Helios marble collection combines the beauty and versatility of the marble with the functionality of the porcelain tiles.

The ceramic marble, with a nearly perfect stone appearance, evolves to bring better solutions and designs to the rooms.

This stone has always been considered a timeless classic that manages to combine beauty, quality and elegance. What was once considered a luxury, has now been adapted to modern tastes with a smooth, light, fresh and youthful finishing.

This versatile material can be used for floor and wall coverings or in the manufacture of countertops. It is suitable for indoors and outdoors and for all types of settings. It can also be combined with other materials.

Vives presents Helios, the series with marble appearance that will cover the wall of your house and will create a modern, avant-garde, majestic, luxurious and elegant environment, with porcelain convenience. It is recommended to combine the marble with other different materials in order to create contrasts of texture and colour, not falling into the monotony.

Helios is a great collection composed of eleven types of marble of different shades. It includes special pieces and complements, and also third firing decorative tiles, designed to cover the most exclusive environments. This is a product able to satisfy different tastes and requirements of each customer. It is presented in size 25x75cm, the ideal format for the up-to-date style.

Thanks to its size and its horizontal pieces, it is possible to get more continuity in the compositions. This new format is ideal for up-to-date designs.

As its name suggests, the tiles in this collection remind geometric images, with compositions and repetitive motives, like the ones that appear when looking through a kaleidoscope.

A pop and lively style is achieved. This is one of the latest trends that have appeared not only in wall tiles , but also in furniture, art and even clothes.

Caleidoscopio brings joy to your house and yourself. It is perfect for bathroom tiles, adding a touch of colour to a sober bathroom. The most attractive model is the Scopio (Arena, Beige, Celeste or Rosa), With its raising circles creates a repetitive flowered motif that will fill your home with vitality.

These series are available in four ranges of colours: gris, ocre, azul and rosa, that become eight colours: Arena, Siena, Beige, Lima, Celeste, Azul, Rosa and Fresa. The different models, 16 in total, together with the Blanco model, create different compositions and shapes. The serie becomes completed with special pieces in order to get unique kaleidoscopic compositions.

From the 5th to the 8th of April, Moscow will count with the exhibition leader in building and interior design. With more than 2.090 exhibitor companies, 48 represented countries and more than 194.440 visitors, this fair is a unique event. For this reason, Vives Azulejos y Gres will present the new collections in Ceramica, the exhibition specialized in ceramic products.

One year more and during 4 days, Vives Azulejos y Gres will participate in Mosbuild, presenting the new collections, focused on the innovation and the latest trends.

Urbino, a porcelain tile with a wood looking will create aesthetic and practical settings that combine elegance, warmness, sophistication and privacy.

The new marble collections, Helios and Titan offer the possibility to create elegant styles in three different series: Terra, Aria and Fuoco. The Helios collection is made up of eleven different designs, adaptable to different tastes and exigencies. Its new size 25x75cm offers more options in decoration and create a sensation of spaciousness. The new collection Titan is made up of 17 different marble designs available in different sizes, rectified and not rectified. This floor tile creates modern and luxury settings.

Candem is a glamorous gold and glossy wall tile. This collection brings luxury at home and is perfect for both bathrooms and kitchens. Its size 20x20cm will captivate with the floral patterns over rich plain colours.

The colour and the pop style arrives with Caleidoscopio series. The size (25x75cm). The variety of colours (Blanco, Arena, Siena,Beige, Lima, Celeste, Azul, Rosa, Fresa) ,compositions and designs, emulating a kaleidoscope, make this collection the perfect election to brighten up your home.

The nearly perfect wooden appearance of the Woodline collection pieces, makes it a series with quality designs and very comfortable. The real emulation of the natural wood colours achieves sophisticated and faithful results.

Finally, Factory represents the metal sheet in a ceramic piece. It creates an industrial design where the furniture and the decoration are combined to transmit modern sensations and singular rooms.

You have the chance to see all the new ranges in Moscow exhibition, pavilion 2, Hall 2, stand D-419.

The Baroque style is presented with Candem series, filling your home with sophistication and distinction. The splendor of these tiles is visible in its refined and amazing finish.

This is a series with glitter and gold designs. Striking designs are dosed in small quantities presenting neutral finishes.

Gold is trendy and is used to cover full walls or to decorate silk cushions as well as to add little details in every day objects. Gold is very powerful, so with only one detail, it creates elegance and sophistication. Combined with a sober style, you can get a special and distinguished finish.

Candem is available in 20x20cm. and is perfect for bathrooms or kitchens. This series has two variants: the simple and elegant one, composed of four colours(beige, ocre, marino y borgoña), and the luxurious and Baroque one, adding gold details (gold beige, gold ocre, gold marino, gold borgoña).

This is a very complete series that includes accessories to create personal compositions. There are floral patterns, more refined, and lineal patterns, more simple. The floor tile is also available in 20x20cm. , presenting matching colours and designs. The series also includes some gold and wood special pieces.

Vives presents this new collection where wood is the main character. A very resistant porcelanic tile, with wood-like. This gets the warmth and intimacy of the wood, but with the comfort, high resistance, confidence and easy maintenance of Vives´ porcelain. Urbino collection combines perfectly a strong usefulness and a higher aesthetic value.

Urbino collection stands for elegance and design, sophistication and functionality. Spaces are created balanced and distinguished, and with a homely and warmth atmosphere at the same time. Wood is a versatile element, it can be used in furniture, walls, ceilings and of course floors, providing a natural and special character to the house. Urbino collection is inspired by the antique, luxurious, exuberant and classy palaces, which used noble materials such as wood to decorate its floors. Combining a wood floor with a classy or vintage decoration, gets a style that fits a person with character and personality.

Thanks to the special designs of these collection, creates dynamism marked by its designs. The colour differences, the colour combinations and the different wood types displayed in the same tile, add style and personality.

The Urbino collection have four different models (Aralia, Erica, Luma y Letia) and two different sizes 45x45cm and 60x60cm, according to consumer needs. These models are perfectly combined, and thus create original compositions for the more daring people.

Lets have a look to Vives booth in this edition of Cevisama 2011: Lets have a look to Vives booth in this edition of Cevisama 2011:

Large number of visitors: professionals of the ceramic sector , architects, interior designers... All of them have shown a great interest in the new products we have launched.

Innovative solutions such as the new format 25x75cm ( Plisse, Caleidoscopio, Helios....), very elaborated textures (Factory 44.3x89.3 and Woodline 21.8x89.3), elegant marbles (Titan y Helios), spectacular compositions (Boomerang, Comodo y Orante), sublime proposals inspired by the artistic Taracea (Urbino), the natural looking of stone (Lucca), warm and romantic textiles (Plisse) or psychedelic and youthful designs (Caleidoscopio) between others.

EPD VIVES sustainability: one of the first Environmental Product Declarations for building materials (EPD) awarded in Spain for the porcelain series. This declaration has been awarded by the Colegio de Aparejadores, Arquitectos Técnicos e Ingenieros de Edificación de Barcelona (CAATEEB) (Association of Surveyors, Technical Architects and Building Engineers in Barcelona) and the Departamento de Medio Ambiente y Vivienda de la Generalitat de Cataluña ( Environment and Housing Department of the Generalitat of Catalonia )

Official presentation of our new web site: more interactive and accessible, easier to read. More intuitive and interactive, it offers an easier way to search products.

An elegant series, which represents the wood warmth with a nearly perfect wood appearance. It also provides advanced technical solutions for ceramics.

Woodline transmits a warm sensation and creates balanced and distinguished spaces, thanks to the design of the pieces.

The new ceramic wood models are available in three types of wood and five colors, all of them with a real imitation of wood. Three of the colours are presented by Zebrano wood collection that is presented in Bioko, Malabo and Equatorial colours. Another new wood design is the Olivo Mediterráneo that, along with Ébano Macasar, make up a modern and up-to-date collection. Their format 21.8 x89, 3 cm. perfectly recreates the soft lines and harmony of the wood.

The combination of the colours in this new Vives series obtains sophisticated and very real results and is able to transmit and create really comfortable atmospheres.

These series are the dream of all lovers of the wood warmth. Thanks to ceramics, they can get more advanced techniques to provide solutions that make our products resistant to scratch, wear, changeable temperatures, etc at the same time that they maintain the wood warmth and create welcoming atmospheres.

A new piece with a bold and casual design, that Vives has been achieved through its commitment to innovation and follow the latest trends.

The industrial style prevails in the decoration, recreating enviropments that remember great factories to us, getting unusual spaces, but that surprise and seduces those who see them. Industrial architecture where the furniture and sensations combine to make modern and unique rooms.

Therefore Vives committed Factory, a tile with a nearly perfect texture and appearance to the metal, that pushes into the rooms of the houses, providing fresh and modern, a remarkable piece, that adds shine and casual style to the sheet metal.

A porcelain that is able of surprising where you are and able to get rooms full of personality.

This piece is available in 45x90cm format, with steps, baseboards and gradons, a series that will fill the rooms of youth and freshness.

Vives booth has experienced a great success in this edition of Cevisama 2011. A wide range of proposals have been presented in order to meet the needs of the most exigent professionals.

A combination of textures, styles, finishes and the most contemporaneous designs starts from the most subtle textures to our exquisite marbles and from our funny monocolores to the most traditional ceramics.

New formats, such as wall tiles in 25x75 and renewed floor tiles in 60x60 and 45x90, can be seen in the spaces that Vives has prepared in the booth for decorators, interior designers, architects, market professionals and the general public.

Vives Azulejos y Gres bet by for its new collections.

Ceramic marble with almost perfect appearance to this natural stone, that it is able to evolve to contribute to more solutions and designs to the stays.

Thanks to its wide range of colors and finishes, Vives series offer elegance and majesty, while getting updated to create modern and luxurious environment. A product can be adapted to different tastes and requirements of each consumer.

Titan series, a floor tile presented in 17 different designs available in sizes 60x60 cm., 45x45 and 44.3x89.3.

Helios series, a wall tile, with 11 different marble designs available in 25x75cm.

With these new series of marbles, specially designed for indoor, Vives is penetrate all stays of the home, not just for bathrooms, but, thanks to the coordinated pavement to combine with the coating, the grounds of all the house get dressed marble.

Series with higher quality and design, that Vives has achieved with the latest technology, by providing parts and a bright look nearly perfect. Collections available to the most demanding customers, that with different choices of decor stand the force of her beauty and become one of the latest trends, that help create environments that awaken the senses.

The formats that include these new series are 25x75cm. coating, with a matching floor tiles of 29.3 x29, 3cm. and three additional sizes have been added for floor tiles: 44,3x89,3cm, y 60x60cm y 45x45, two of them offer the possibility to be rectified or non-rectified . A great variety of sizes and designs for custom and unique design stays.

One year more Vives Azulejos y Gres gets ready for the biggest event of tile industry in Cevisama 2011, that will take place from the 8th until the 11th of February.

Vives will present its new collections at the Salón Internacional de la Cerámica , new products and innovative designs with the purpose of being the most remarkable because of their quality and attractive designs.

Vives's team works hard in order to satisfy the new needs of the tile sector. For that reason Vives presents a great variety of products to supply every kind of taste and customer.

It will be possible to see the new design trends and the most representative products in our stand in Cevisama, this year Vives has focused itself in the marbles and the new format 25 x 75 cm, used for its new series for wall tiles.

This time and as usually, Vives shows the innovative soul of the company with settings and panels that will surprise the visitors, and that offer the most advanced technical and decorative solutions. The modernity joins with the elegance of the classic lines.

This year, we start showing our new Web, which is much more intuitive and interactive, it is also remarkable the new ecological certification DAP'c that was obtained by Vives last October.

We wait for your visit at our new stand, which this year changes its location, we move on to the third level, hall 1, Stand B-28.

A yearly event that meets companies and designers of the sector and where an overview of all the furnishings and design market is presented.

For the first time, Vives will be present at this prestigious fair, and nothing better to start than to be in Pure Village, an exciting new platform placed in the centre of the IMM Cologne, among prestigious design brands.

This platform offers to the visitors an exclusive and attractive atmosphere, presenting the latest and most innovative trends of the market.

The visitors to Vives stand will be surprised by some of the most successful products like the large size XXL series: Civic, Cóndor, Exedra and Materia. Also Hypnos and Talía series will be presented, two porcelain floor tiles in 45x45cm that create elegant and trendy mosaics.

It is a great opportunity, and Vives will have the chance to present its products in a professional environment among more than 1250 exhibitors and 150 stands. You will find us in Hall 3.2 Stand D-027.

Vives presents a more interactive and accessible website, with a better contents display. Vives continuous growth is reflected in the constant implementation of improvements and new services. We offer our customers the best options to make their work easier.

With this website update, Vives tries to make it more intuitive and accessible, helping the visitors to see the published contents and search products in an easier way. There are many improvements such us the new design of each section or the incorporation of new tools.

The new products menu will give you the possibility to choose the characteristics of the tiles , showing only the matching products. This allows to restrict the search and choose the desired type of finish, size or technical characteristics.

A new settings display has also been created, as in the products menu, to give the chance to choose the tiles characteristics, scenario, colours and locations, resulting in settings presenting all these characteristics.

Vives keeps following new trends. The presence in the social networks offers a more direct contact with clients, with daily communications about novelties and events. From Facebook, Twitter o Linkedin, we work to increase our presence in Internet. On the new website, it is possible to enter these networks directly, as well as the other linked websites, EcoVives, TechnicalSolutions, Vives plus and Antislips.

At Vives Azulejos y Gres, we hope that this launch will be favourably received by our public, since this update is addressed directly to them, in order to make easier the use of the website and to give solutions to their needs.