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CERAME-UNIE Mission

sec@cerameunie.eu

+32 2 511 30 12

+32 2 511 51 74 Rue de la Montagne 17 B-1000 Brussels

The ceramics industry embraces an enormous variety of products, running from bricks and tiles through sanitaryware, clay pipes, refractories and technical ceramics to tableware and ornamentalware. The markets for these products may be very different, but the production processes have much in common, such as the selection of raw materials and the drying and firing of clays.

In 1962 Cerame-Unie was established in Brussels as the common mouthpiece of the European ceramics industries.
It thus represents the interests of the industry at the European level for more than a generation. Cerame-Unie has expanded the scope of its activities in tune with the intensification of the European integration process. It now deals with issues ranging from international trade policy through the liberalisation of natural gas markets and the prevention of pollution to health and safety policies.

In addition to representing its members' interests in Brussels Cerame-Unie has the ambition to develop and promote high common standards of production and product quality, and to offer a platform on which its members can exchange views and experiences in the common interest.

The ceramics industry has exploited the European single market through cross border merges and takeovers, together with greatly increased investment in new production and energy saving technologies. Members of Cerame-Unie have moved from the use of a range of fuel types to natural gas, and to advanced kiln and production techniques. The result has not only been an increased efficiency, but also a major and still continuing reduction of fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

Cerame-Unie looks forward to strenghtening the dialogue with the European authorities and the broad public on a vigorous ceramics industry in the enlarged European Union of the new millennium.