Finale Emilia, 17 March 2014 - ABK GROUP has unveiled "Auto-Leveling", a new technology for ensuring perfectly flat installation of large-format tiles. The group's brands Abk, Ariana and Flaviker are currently the exclusive users of this innovative pressing technology. The outstanding flexibility of the tiles makes them simple to install given that a small degree of convexity ensures maximum bonding with the substrate. Once installed, the tiles level automatically to achieve a perfectly flat surface every time.

"Auto-Leveling" technology uses raw materials that combine stability and strength with high plasticity, along with a process specially developed in the ABK laboratories to give unique qualities to this type of product. The use of appropriately batched and mixed eco-friendly raw materials ensures that ABK GROUP brand products have the characteristics needed to obtain LEED rating credits.

"During these years of crisis we have chosen to continue to invest in research and development in the firm belief that the market is ever more urgently seeking innovative hi-tech products," commented ABK GROUP's Chairman Roberto Fabbri. "Our laboratories have developed concrete solutions to the real needs of the sector, allowing us to achieve excellent results and create products that stand apart from those of our competitors."

Thanks to "Auto-Leveling" technology, the aesthetic perfection and strength of porcelain is combined with an elasticity that was previously unimaginable for ceramic materials, bringing considerable advantages for both installation and transport. This technology is currently used on all the group's products in sizes 20x170 cm and 40x170 cm, most notably the collections Soleras from ABK, Portland 325, Bali and Larix from Ariana and Dakota from Flaviker.