Italian Tile Manufacturers recovering after earthquakes
This past May, there were two strong earthquakes in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy that left several dead and thousands homeless. Ceramica Sant’Agostino, an Italian ceramic tile manufacturer, was among those who had suffered a terrible loss. Two of the company’s workers, Nicholas Cavicchi and Leonardo Ansaloni, died in the Sant’Agostino factory when the building collapsed. In addition, the company’s automated warehouse and monocottura production facility were left damaged.
Ceramica Sant’Agostino is a third-generation business, which was set up in 1964 in the Province of Ferrara in the Emilia-Romagna region (about 22 miles north of Bologna). It has been 800 years since an earthquake of this magnitude has affected the region.