Sustainability
Built Around
What the Line Uses.
Grinding and finishing a slab at this scale draws water and material by design. The line at Morbi is built to recover both rather than to treat them as waste.
Water recycling
Grinding and polishing a porcelain slab are wet processes - water carries away the material the abrasives remove. That water is collected rather than run to drain: it settles, the solids come out, and the clarified water returns to the line for the next pass.
Because the loop is closed, what the line draws from fresh is limited to what evaporates off the process, not what the grinding and polishing stages use in total. The solids that settle out are not discarded either - they go back into the body rather than to landfill.
Heat Recovery
The kiln is the largest energy draw on the line, and its heat does not leave the building unused. Recovered heat is fed back into the process rather than vented.
Material Return
Unfired scrap from pressing and cutting goes back into the body rather than to landfill. A slab that never leaves Morbi still contributes to the ones that do.
Packaging
Crating is designed around the slab it carries, sized to the format rather than to a standard box. Less packaging material travels for the same protection.