Tile installer training: two agreements signed

The world of tile installation featured prominently during the 40th edition of Cersaie with two particularly important initiatives aimed at promoting and disseminating training activities for tile layers in Italy.

In the Tiling Town space, the Chairmen of Angaisa, Maurizio Lo Re, of Assoposa, Luca Berardo, and of Confindustria Ceramica, Giovanni Savorani, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of promoting the training of tile layers and showroom workers of Angaisa member companies. Specifically, staff will be able to obtain a professional certificate as a “showroom technician” or “site technician.” In turn, installers, who are clients of Angaisa distributors, can obtain the certification of “tile layer” or a professional certificate as a “master tile layer”. Furthermore, Assoposa may organise dedicated webinars for Angaisa members on technical or technical/legal issues relating to tiles/flooring and their installation.

Confindustria Ceramica has signed up to the agreement with the aim of providing contributions and insights on topics of common interest to the entire ceramic industry. “I believe that this Memorandum of Understanding makes an important contribution to promoting sector-specific training and fostering the professional development of installers and showroom staff in the specialised distribution system represented by Angaisa,” said Maurizio Lo Re, chairman of Angaisa. “Cersaie was the perfect setting for the signing of this agreement, which confirms the strategic importance of trade fairs in the sector as a meeting place for the production and distribution sectors and an ideal opportunity for networking. “In the coming months we will continue to work together with Assoposa and Confindustria Ceramica to maintain and further consolidate our partnership.”

Maurizio Lo Re (Angaisa), Luca Berardo (Assoposa), Giovanni Savorani (Confindustria Ceramica)

On the same day, Formedil, Confindustria Ceramica and Assoposa signed a Memorandum of Understanding confirming their cooperation in promoting and organising ceramic tile laying courses aimed at instructors at the Formedil network’s territorial agencies and at tile layers attending building schools. The signatories of the agreement were Elena Lovera, Chairwoman of Formedil, Giovanni Savorani, Chairman of Confindustria Ceramica, and Luca Berardo, Chairman of Assoposa. “The signing of the Angaisa and Formedil agreements is a tangible demonstration of the kind of cooperation that trade associations should be able to achieve today. “Another point of interest is that the subject of both agreements is training, which is seen as a key element for the growth and development of the professional categories we represent,” said Luca Berardo, Chairman of Assoposa.

Elena Lovera (Formedil) with Giovanni Savorani and Luca Berardo

Elena Lovera, chairwoman of Formedil, stated: “The signing of the memorandum is an excellent starting point for responding to the need for a modern, forward-looking building industry that establishes sustainability and the quality of construction techniques as its main aims. The CAM (Minimal Environmental Criteria) regulations include incentives for contractors who use qualified tile installers. Through the activities of its 118 territorial training agencies and dedicated courses, Formedil will have the opportunity to train sector workers in the best available techniques, in order to guarantee increasingly specialised and innovative professional training.”

Giovanni Savorani, chairman of Confindustria Ceramica, commented: “Training is a strategic issue for the Italian ceramic tile industry. The first of these two agreements is aimed at the professional world of building schools belonging to Formedil, while the second is aimed at the sales outlets of distribution companies belonging to Angaisa, testifying to the willingness of all players to think in terms of the supply chain. Ceramic products, with their ever-increasing technological content, attain the highest levels of technical performance and aesthetic quality when they are installed by trained and qualified professional installers.”

November 2023