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Sustainability and responsible transport are key at Krion PORCELANOSA Group

Sustainability awareness runs through all aspects of the product life cycle at Krion Porcelanosa Group, following an overhaul of the tasks carried out by the company's quality and logistics departments. Environmental awareness. Krion Porcelanosa Group has set itself a new objective of finding and... developing a more efficient, sustainable and environmentally responsible logistics system for its Krion™ LUX material, aiming to raise environmental awareness and promote the benefits of sustainable transport. Krion opts for responsible, sustainable and efficient transport. Krion™ Lux is manufactured in sheets of varying dimensions, and is transported on wooden pallets in 20 and 40-foot containers. Thanks to a new way of packing the sheets on pallets, the brainchild of the Krion PORCELANOSA Group quality and logistics department, they have succeeded in increasing the number of sheets being transported and maximised the space in each container, achieving up to 167% more sheets per pallet in certain formats. This has led to a reduction in environmental impact and carbon footprint for each sheet of up to 40%. This brings the benefit of responsible and sustainable transport, making Krion™ LUX a more environmentally-friendly material. Sustainable packaging Krion PORCELANOSA Group's mission is to find solutions to use its own recycled and renewable materials for packaging and use them more efficiently, ensuring the use of materials is always responsible - whether virgin, recycled or renewable. All the cardboard used in its packaging comes from sustainable sources, as proven by the PEFC logo print. What's more, with the new transport arrangements the brand has achieved a 14.3% reduction in the weight of cardboard used to protect Krion™ LUX. And it doesn't stop at cardboard: wood consumption has been reduced by 25% thanks to their ability to pack more sheets per pallet. Because it has a long lifespan this is a very effective raw material is effective for responsible transport, as each pallet is reused until it can no longer perform its function properly - and when that happens, it's easy to recycle. Innovation, sustainability and environmental responsibility. With these improvements to responsible transport and more efficient packaging, Krion PORCELANOSA Group aims to have a positive effect on the fight against uncontrolled consumption of natural resources. After all, a sustainable mindset, a responsibility to protect the environment and a drive for innovation are part of its DNA.

The Deutsche Bahn station lounges in Germany are counting on KRION for their fittings

Founded on 1st January 1994, from the extinct railway companies that existed until the reunification, the main railway company in Germany, Deutsche Bahn AG,was born. With this company, we can travel on regional trains to discover the most beautiful spots, even at high-speed. An affordable and... comfortable way to travel around the country. In March 2015, Deutsche Bahn launched a competition to develop a new concept of space, whose aim was to incorporate the customer’s desires according to the different needs for use during a stay in the DB Lounge. Despite the strong competition, CRi were the winners of the competition. CRi Cronauer and Romani Innenarchitekten GmbH designed a new lounge concept in collaboration with the Deutsche Bahn. The style of the furniture brings us closer to the railway network, each one of the elements evokes a chapter of a journey, that takes us from the winding shape of the bar countertop which imitates a high-speed train, to the S shaped lines of the roof that transport us to the catenary and a bird’s-eye view of the tracks. For these fittings, they counted on the Solid Surface from the PORCELANOSAGroup, KRION. We can find KRION in the catering areas of some of the Deutsche Bahn AG stations, with its conversion into: reception desks, tables, self-service bars, seats… all of them in our colours 6101Frost White and 6401 Red Fire. Client: DB Fernverkehr AG Planning: CRi Cronauer + Romani Innenarchitekten GmbH Participants in the project: Frau Dreher, Frau Gängler, Frau Schubert, Herr Bühler, Frau Tiemann, Herr Romani Production: CRi Cronauer + Romani Innenarchitekten and Otto & Jörg Schier Architekten Interior designers: Umdasch AG and Aichinger GmbH Processors: Pfeiffer GmbH & Co. KG, Voit & Partner GmbH & Co.KG, Zöller Möbelwerkstätte Photograph: Jens Pfisterer KRION PORCELANOSA SOLID SURFACE

The company AutoClick Rent a Car puts its trust in KRION for the desks in its offices

AutoClick Rent a Car, is a new car hire company whose operations began in Palma de Mallorca in 2015. In the last year, it has undergone a great expansion which is now present, thanks to the widespread recognition received from its clients, in 25 of the most important airports in all of Europe. We... can now benefit from the services of AutoClick in countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Poland and Romania. In this way, AutoClick is establishing itself as the non-franchise car hire company with the greatest growth in Europe. Having only corporate offices available allows this young business to maintain a high-quality service, its primary focus being the loyalty of its customers through providing quality and service. PORCELANOSA Group’s solid surface is accompanying AutoClick in its expansion. In the images we can see the office at Son Oms, in Mallorca, on this occasion the company in charge of transforming KRION, in its use in commercial furnishings, has been VF Applications. We can find KRION in the public reception desks, in the colours 1100 Snow White and 6701 Blue Sky. Photograher: Gori Salva KRION PORCELANOSA SOLID SURFACE

Solid Surface in the transportation sector

KRION® in the transportation sector