Casalgrande Padana Creative Centre, Studio Cerri Associati Engineering, 2005. (ph. Marco Introini)

Casalgrande Padana’s history stands out for the company’s commitment to supporting major architectural and design initiatives, first and foremost the Grand Prix, an international award created in 1990 to reward those works that make the most of the technical properties and expressive potentials of the glazed stoneware units manufactured by the company, now one of the most prestigious events in ceramic architecture.
Culture of manufacture and culture of design are the basic areas which in these fifty years have been the distinctive traits of Casalgrande Padana’s development strategies, and the company will keep pursuing a right balance between economic growth, technological innovation, respect of the environment and shared wellbeing.

Casalgrande Padana Creative Centre, the building and his flexible areas. (ph. Marco Introini)

The first Italian company to specialise in glazed stoneware, this year Casalgrande Padana celebrates its first fifty years in the business, half a century of history during which it experienced an extraordinary development that has made it an undisputed global leader.
Figures speak for themselves, and nowadays the group has over 500 employees, plus 550 in its subsidiary Nuova Riwal, working in six high-tech plants in the heart of the most important ceramic district in the world, over a total surface of 700,000 square metres. Its increasingly-growing production and sales volumes are the most effective evidence of the company’s ability to understand the evolution of the market and its trends in terms of architectural expression and technological innovation.

Casalgrande Padana working areas.

Respect of natural resources, protection of the environment and social accountability are deeply rooted in the company’s genes, as it is unfailingly committed to pursuing the most excellent standards in order to fully respond to any architectural requirement. It also offers high-quality services through its Padana Engineering company, specialising in providing advice and assistance through all stages of work, from the selection of the right materials to the development of a project, and its Creative Centre, a first-class laboratory open to industry professionals which acts as an interface with the shop level, capable of combining innovation with creativity, in architecture, design, art and production.