1. Inventory of functional tiles
The functional tiles currently launched by the tile industry are roughly the following:
Negative ion tiles: a healthy tile that can generate negative ions and purify the air. The natural mineral tourmaline used in the production of tiles can stimulate water molecules in the air, thereby generating a large number of negative ions. Negative ions can decompose various harmful substances in the air, thereby achieving the effects of clearing haze and sterilizing, removing odors, and purifying the air. It can effectively remove formaldehyde, with a formaldehyde removal rate of 92.2% and a toluene purification rate of 95.6%.
Heating tiles: A nano-carbon ink heating layer is implanted on the back of the tile. After power is turned on, the tile itself can continuously generate heat and release it to the indoor space like ordinary electric heating products. A wire connected to the thermostat is added to the tile, and no special maintenance is required. Like the ordinary tile paving method, the thermostat can set the temperature and automatically enter a heat preservation state after reaching the preset temperature, which is quite energy-saving.
Quantum energy tiles: Quantum technology is based on the principles of quantum mechanics, combined with quantum biology, pharmacology and life informatics, and uses microscopic electronic fluctuations, light wave energy conduction and other forms to prevent, regulate, anti-aging, treat, rehabilitate, and detoxify the body. Quantum energy tiles use related technologies to enable tile products to remove formaldehyde, antibacterial, anti-radiation, remove benzene, and improve human health.
Antibacterial tiles: During the production process, inorganic antibacterial agents are added to the glaze to make the surface of the tiles have antibacterial effects. A new type of functional tile. The antibacterial agent for ceramic glaze is a multifunctional antibacterial agent. It also has the functions of antibacterial, mildew-proof, air purification and far-infrared effect. The antibacterial function is an 8h sterilization rate (hepatitis B, Escherichia coli, etc.) close to 100%, with obvious antibacterial effects.
Breathing brick: It is a new type of ceramic tile product. Its production process is basically the same. It also undergoes ball milling, spray drying, pressing, glazing, firing, etc., but the raw materials use a large number of natural environmentally friendly materials such as natural clay rich in micropores, marine paleontological sedimentary minerals, etc., and are made by scientific proportioning and high-temperature firing. The brick body has a large number of fine pores. The siphon effect of the fine pores enables the breathing brick to intelligently adjust the air humidity and purify indoor harmful gases and odors. Today's breathing bricks also have a photocatalyst coating on the surface to increase the function of decomposing harmful gases. In addition, there are products such as "anti-slip bricks" with anti-slip functions.
2. Difficult exploration of functional tiles
The earliest functional tiles are negative ion tiles, which are a "healthy ceramic tile production method that can release negative ions". After that, negative ion tile products began to be promoted on the market, and negative ion tiles were gradually recognized by people.
Then heating tiles came into people's field of vision. Some folk inventors tried to heat the tiles with composite heating plates at the bottom of the tiles. Later, in order to solve the thickness problem of the composite heating tiles, some companies tried to reserve grooves on the back during the pressing process of the tiles, and directly embed the heating plates after firing. Due to the formation of grooves at the bottom of the brick embryo, the deformation problem during high-temperature firing could not be solved, and finally it had to be abandoned.
The sanitary ware industry first launched antibacterial sanitary ware, and the ceramic tile industry followed closely to launch antibacterial ceramic tiles. At present, several companies in Foshan, China have launched antibacterial ceramic tiles, but these have not been promoted in a big way, so the sales volume is not large and the impact is low. People in the industry don’t know much about it, and even less understand it. As for the terminal market, there is no concept yet.
In addition, there are also industries that have proposed the concept of breathing bricks, and a startup company has launched quantum energy bricks. These products are still in the initial stage and are almost unknown to the outside world.
3. The future of functional ceramic tiles
Negative ion ceramic tiles have gradually formed sales. In particular, with the help of negative ion ceramic tiles, sales performance and brand influence have achieved significant growth in the case of poor overall market conditions in the industry; in addition, nearly ten small brands in the entire ceramic tile industry have also followed up to launch negative ion ceramic tiles.
As people pay more and more attention to health, the market potential of negative ion ceramic tiles will also be great. If the product really becomes popular, big brands will enter quickly. Over the years, some standards and patent technology thresholds in the ceramic tile industry do not seem to play a particularly large role.
With the improvement of heating tile production technology, some large brand companies with strong financial strength, rich production resources, channel resources, and promotion resources have joined in to promote and popularize the entire product. After the heating tile products mature, they can not only partially solve the heating problem of people in the northern region, but in a sense, the market potential in the southern region, which has no collective heating equipment and is wet and cold in winter, may be greater, so this product is worth looking forward to.
Antibacterial tiles can be widely used in the decoration of kitchens, bathrooms and medical institutions, which will effectively reduce the growth of bacteria and also have market prospects. If quantum energy tiles and breathing tiles are as powerful as the company's propaganda, the future market sales should not be underestimated.
