Kerakoll - The GreenBuilding Company

 

At just 29 years of age, Romano Sghedoni founded Kerakoll in 1968 in Sassuolo, Modena. The company went on to become a leading manufacturer of materials and services in the applied chemical sector for building applications.

 

The first single-component adhesives for ceramics, designed and produced in his garage, were the result of his passion for construction and chemistry, combined with a huge love of engineering.

 

His insight and amazing determination drove him in a continual pursuit of innovation, inventing one new product after another, each one with a unique technology and ease of professional application to make laying homogeneous tiles and natural stone easy, whatever the circumstances.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The continued confidence that from there it developed, made the company extends, in the 90s, their business to the restoration of buildings, charging up from the solution of waterproofing problems; deterioration of concrete, falsely considered indestructible; to the purification of the buildings invaded by moisture.

A Kerakoll foi fornecedor técnico de obras arquitetónicas importantes como:

 

• the 2010 Green Point Stadium in Cape Town

• the 2008 Olympic Stadium and the Beijing Lufthansa Center – which won the Lubian Award, the highest national recognition awarded by the Chinese Ministry of Construction 

• Valencia’s City of Arts and Science 

• the London and Tokyo underground systems 

• the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg

• the Music Park Auditorium and Museo Maxxi in Rome 

• the Houston Design Centre

• the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao 

• the World Trade Center in Bahrain

 

and restoration of pieces of world heritage such as:

 

• St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice 

• the Verona Arena 

• the Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Vecchio and Corridoio Vasariano in Florence 

• the Reggia di Venaria Reale, the biggest restoration project in Europe.

   

   

  Over the years, Kerakoll has built up a unique legacy of technical know-how and skills that have allowed the company to carve out a leading place in the worldwide market for GreenBuilding construction materials, becoming the partner of leading design engineers, specialist distributors and corporate clients such as McDonald’s, Armani, BMW, Ferrari, Zara, Diesel, Ikea, Mercedes, Dolce & Gabbana, Swatch and Coca Cola.