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Report

An industrial visit to RAK ceramics which is a public shareholding company with H.H. Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qassimi was organized on 8th March, 2018. Everything about RAK ceramics and the manufacturing of tiles was explained by Mr. Abhishek, who is the marketing manager. To build a world normal for quality and beauty, the corporate primarily starts producing their products. They begin their 1st production in June 1991. Within nineteen years it became a world category organization.             (UKEssays, 2018)

Aim

Learn things practically in a real-time functional environment through interaction and observation.

Objectives

·         Providing students functional opportunity.

·         Make students understand the subject to its core and its deeper practical experience in real field situation.

Objective of the Report

The fundamental goal of the report is described below:

·         Introduction to RAK ceramics.

·         Production.

·         Industrial site touring experience.

Chapter1:

Introduction

Figure 1, Location (Google Maps, 2018)

1.1 Company overview

RAK Ceramics is one of the biggest ceramics production brand on the planet. It is specialized in ceramic and gres porcelain wall, floor tiles, tableware, sanitary ware and faucets. They are producing 110 million square meters of tiles, five million sanitary ware pieces, twenty four million porcelain tableware pieces and one million faucets per year at their twenty production plants that are present in United Arab Emirates, India, Bangladesh, China and Iran. Rak ceramics is also a listed company on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange in the United Arab Emirates and the Dhaka Stock Exchange in Bangladesh and the company has a yearly turnover of around 1billion U.S dollars.

(RAK, 2018)

1.2 Achievements

RAK Ceramics began its tasks with an output of 5,000 square meters every day. It proceeded with extension projects and utilization of complex machinery from the world pioneers in Ceramic industry, for example, Sacmi, Barbieri and Tarrozzi. RAK Ceramics presently produces 200,000 square meters of tiles per day. (ArabianBusiness, 2018)

For the sixth consecutive year, RAK ceramics achieved super brands status in the year 2014 and some of the awards won by the company are:

•                Gold Award in Large Enterprise Category

•                SAP Quality Awards

•                Asian HR Leadership Awards

•                Customer Engagement Award

•                Asian Customer Engagement Awards                                       (otieno, 2018)

1.3 Profit outcome for the year 2017

RAK Ceramics declared its outcomes for the second quarter finished June 30, 2017, demonstrating a net benefit of Dh113.2 million that speaks to a solid year on year increment of 73 percent contrasted with a similar period a year ago and a quarter-on-quarter rise of 76 percent. The profit expanded by seven percent year-on-year and 66 percent quarter-on-quarters to Dh85.1 million. Core incomes expanded 6.5 percent quarter-quarter to Dh661.1 million, and stayed stable year-on-year. The company continued to show positive momentum in core grosses margins, which increased by 450 bps (basis point) year-on-years at 34.2 per cent. Tile gross margins increased to 30.1 per cent, the highest quarterly result in three years. In order to carry out further improvements the production efficiencies and cost savings were made which played a huge role. (Report, 2018)

Chapter 2 :                             Production

RAK Ceramics supplies its products to over 160 countries and has been officially recognized as the world’s largest ceramic manufacturer with a global annual production output of 117 million square meters of ceramic and porcelain tiles, 20 million pieces of tableware and 4.5 million pieces of bath ware. Specializing in high-quality Ceramic Wall and Floor Tiles, Gres Porcellanato, and Sanitary ware, RAK Ceramics uses more than 8,000 designs, with new designs added almost every week to its portfolio. Tiles are manufactured in a variety of sizes, from 10 cm x 10 cm up to 125 cm x 185 cm, the widest range offered in the ceramic field.                                                   (Rakindia, 2018)

R.A.K Ceramics produces a very wide range of products in the Ceramic Range with products such as Ceramic Wall and Floor Tiles, Coordinated Wall and Floor tiles, High Gloss Rectified Tiles, Decors, Pencils and Capping, Floor mosaics, and Borders & Corners. In Sanitary ware various models are produced in wash basins (mounted as well as pedestal types), bathroom sets, water closets & bidets, bath tubs, shower trays, kitchen sinks, bathroom cabinets, and many associated accessories.

| Figure 2: Kitchen & associated accessories

| Figure 3: Production of tiles

| Figure 4: Production of tiles

RAK Ceramics is the world's first company to launch Luminous, the wonder tile that glows in the dark and the Antimicrobial, a super specialty tile for the hospitality industry. The company's creations include the high-valued brand "Elegance Ceramics" and it continues to be a global pioneer in the world of ceramics through innovative eco-friendly products such as RAK SLIM, Stone Art Collection, Orion Collection and Wood Art Collection using the latest Nanopix digital printing technology. It has also launched its trendy tiles in unique sizes of 25 cm x 70 cm and 20 cm x 50 cm appealing to the urban consumers. Further it has tapped children’s tiles segment with the launch of Junior Tiles Collection.    (Rakindia.com, 2018)

2.1 Types

Red Body and White Body Ceramic Tiles

Red body and white body ceramic tiles are made with finest quality clays and with chamotte (raw material with high percentage of silica). These raw materials are submitted to dry grinding and suitably mixed and wet and then pressed with hydraulic presses. Quick-cycle support firing is obtained via roller kilns reaching temperatures of approximately 1100 °C. After biscuit glazing, the vitrified product is sintered in a single-layer roller kiln at approximately 1030 °C. This class of products shows virtually no shrinkage during firing; therefore such dimensional consistency results in extremely easy laying.                                                                                                       (RAK, 2018)

| Figure 5: Heating & mixing Process

| Figure 6: Red & white tiles (RAK, 2018)

Laying Process

Ceramic Red and White body tiles can be laid using either tile adhesives or cement mortar. Under no circumstances should the tiles be wet before they are laid on the floor. When laying large sized tiles it is best to adopt the two layer spreading method and.

Porcelain Tiles

Porcelain tiles are manufactured using pure, selectively imported raw materials mixed using the most advanced extraction and sorting techniques; they are obtained with a production process similar to that of single-fired tiles. The resulting product is top-quality porcelain tile, obtained by raw materials wet grinding, followed by partial drying by spraying, silo storage to allow homogenization of properties, and pressing with highly efficient hydraulic presses up to specific pressures more than 500 kg/cm2. The high pressure combined with high firing temperature exceeding 1200 °C results in highly compact & strong ceramic surface with very low water absorption.               (RAK, 2018)

| Figure 7: Porcelain Tiles (RAK, 2018)

Laying

Porcelain tiles can be installed using traditional cement mortars, they advise using modern adhesives. While installing on wall, the two-layer spreading system is recommended to perfectly wet the back of the tile. Quickly dipping each tile in water before installation will remove any dust on the back of the tile for perfect adhesion.

Do not wet the tiles if you are using vinyl, acrylic resin adhesives or two- component organic-solvent based adhesive.                                                                      (RAK, 2018)

Circle Wood

Thanks to the advanced digital printing technology, Circle Wood glazed gres porcelain tile interprets the real essence of wood and are perfect for all kinds on indoor wall and floor. The natural wood effect comprising of veins and circular nodes of tree make this tile collection come to life. Circle Wood is available in wide range of color of ivory, grey, nut, beige, and brown in 19.5x120 sizes. The variety of designs and color combination of Circle Wood collection gives great look to any room: kitchen, dining room, living room and bedroom, restaurant etc.                                                                            (RAK, 2018)

| Figure 8: Circle wood (RAK, 2018)

Maximus Mega Slab

They have created a world where big is beautiful, with visually expanded spaces, fewer design interruptions and endless possibilities. Standing at a majestic 135x305cm, Maximus Mega Slab which can be used to cover walls, floors, create facades or as a replacement for kitchen surfaces and bathroom vanity units. It is available in a range of sizes and thicknesses.  Maximus Mega Slab is their most versatile product yet.

(RAK, 2018)

| Figure 9: Maximus Mega Slab

Chapter 3:

Site Experience

Industry visits sensitize students to the practical challenges that organizations face in the technical world. Industrial visit also gave us greater clarity about various technical concepts as they can practically see how these concepts are put into action.

It provided us an opportunity to learn practically through interaction, working methods and employment practices. Visiting a company gave us a practical perspective on the world of work.                                                                                                   (Anon, 2018)

Chapter 4:

Conclusion

We conclude that, while going through the entire industrial visit, the co-operation is found to be very well organized developed and most ideal industry in every walk of its production, administration and management aspects.

With a visit to industrial site we got a new experience of the industry. We can understand and compare the knowledge acquired in college to the working world industry. It is very important for us because we can directly see to the industrial world.

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