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The project ARCH – Advanced Research Ceramic Heritage bets on a future-oriented strategy, while respecting the brand's legacy Valadares, a centuries-old story.
Combining tradition with innovation and design, with 100% Portuguese production and a strong environmental component, ARCH aims to revolutionize the ceramic sanitary industry market with the development of new materials, as well as expanding the scope of ceramics to new fields of application.
CENTENARY
Based in Valadares, Vila Nova de Gaia, the ARCH is today the company that owns, produces and markets the brand Valadares for more than 50 countries. For more than a century, the Valadares has built a solid brand and is now internationally recognized for its quality and innovation.
The project ARCH – Advanced Researcharch Ceramic Heritage aims to expand the brand's international dimension Valadares. It focuses on a strategy that is strongly focused on its customers and invests in great agility to adapt to the challenges of a market with many changing factors.
INNOVATION AS A DESIGN
The project of ARCH is based on operational and strategic assets embodied in the brand Valadares in the potential arising from the creative freedom of a new business project. Innovation is a design for ARCH:
> Ensuring the production of articles with personalized design, brand identity and connoted with a very strong image of quality;
> Taking advantage of "know-how" of almost a century of activity, to which are added unique skills of I&D in the sector;
> Developing and applying innovative and exclusive materials such as Gresanit® ou HighPor®, as one of the differentiating examples in quality and technical performance compared to competitors.
RESEARCH AS A TOOL
With qualified staff and a laboratory for the development of tests and analytical processes in ceramics, ARCH brings together the ideal conditions for operational research and control of implementation processes I&D. Mastering the performance of raw materials and optimizing the best shaping techniques for sanitary parts represent a critical factor for implementing innovative solutions. In ARCH, the field of I&D action is vast and multifaceted.
The design of a product requires the development of new tools, machines, refractory parts, packaging, non-ceramic components, etc. Ceramic knowledge has been integrated and consolidated over many years by Valadares, finding itself completely internalized.
Today ARCH Valadares is the fusion between the personality of its past and the ambition to shape the future in new ways. This is the legacy we are proud of and that we want to continue to honor today.
