Rimini, Italy
TECNA
EL Badr Industries at TECNA, the international fair for ceramic technology and supplies, meeting the equipment and spare-part makers who build the world's ceramic production lines.
Ceramic Industry
Everything we build for a ceramic line
Shakers, pulleys, spindles, pump bodies, press spares and the steelwork that holds it all up — designed, machined and welded in our own two factories in Egypt, from the raw material silo to the packing line.
17
Ceramic manufacturers served
19+
Years in metal manufacturing
100%
Designed and made in Egypt
ISO 9001
Certified since 2008
The line
Eight stages, one supplier
A tile plant is a chain of machines, and every link in it wears out. Here is where we come in — stage by stage, from the silo to the pallet.
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Body preparation
Raw-material shakers, feeders and hoppers — plus the platform steelwork that carries them.
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Milling
Grinder pulleys and continuous mill drive pulleys, machined complete from solid.
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Slip handling
Slip pump bodies and pump valves, machined to your sample or drawing.
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Pressing
Press overhaul on our own boring mills, plus the drive gears and heavy spares that keep a press running.
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Glazing & decoration
Drive shafts, sprockets and couplings for glaze lines and digital printing lines.
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Firing
Kiln drive gearboxes, roller drives and replacement gearing — our core business since 2007.
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Polishing & squaring
Polishing spindles and spindle sleeves, reverse-engineered from the worn original.
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Sorting & packing
Conveyor drives, sprockets and gearboxes for the end of the line.
At a glance
Everything we make for a tile plant
The bigger the words, the more of it you will find photographed further down. Tap any one to look it up in the index.
Parts index
57 parts we make for tile plants
Machined or fabricated to your drawing, your sample or the worn original. Search the list, or tell us the machine and we will work the rest out.
Body preparation & milling
- Raw material shakers & vibrating feeders
- Feeder hoppers, silo cones & platform steelwork
- Ball mill girth gears & pinions
- Ball mill trunnions & hollow shafts
- Ball mill end covers & manhole covers
- Grinder pulleys
- Continuous mill drive pulleys
- Screw conveyor flights & shafts
- Bucket elevator drums, shafts & buckets
- Belt and apron feeder drums & drive shafts
- Vibrating screen frames & eccentric units
Slip handling & spray drying
- Slip pump bodies
- Slip pump valves & valve seats
- Piston pump crossheads, conrods & liners
- Spray dryer lance bodies & nozzle holders
- Rotary atomiser shafts
- Slurry agitator shafts & impellers
- Agitator and pump drive gearboxes
Pressing
- Press housing & frame overhaul
- Crankshafts & eccentric shafts
- Toggle pins, bushes & links
- Die carriage guides, wear plates & bushings
- Mould frame steelwork & punch backing plates
- Powder charging carriage frames & drives
- Press entry and exit roller tables
- Press drive gears & gearbox rebuilds
Dryers & kilns
- Roller drive gearboxes — worm, helical & bevel
- Roller drive shafts, sprockets & chain wheels
- Roller support bushes & bearing housings
- Fan shafts & impellers
- Girth gears & pinions for rotary dryers
- Kiln hood steelwork & expansion joints
Glazing & decoration
- Conveyor drive drums, idlers & shafts
- Glaze pump shafts & impellers
- Bell and disc glazing machine shafts
- Stirrer shafts & stainless tank steelwork
- Chain, sprocket & gearbox drive sets
Squaring, cutting & polishing
- Polishing spindles
- Polishing spindle sleeves
- Spindle housings
- Splined drive shafts
- Squaring & calibrating head spindles
- Diamond wheel flanges & adaptor hubs
- Slide carriages, beam guides & lead screws
- Drive pulleys & belt tensioners
Sorting, packing & handling
- Conveyor drive units, drums & shafts
- Stacker and unloader frames, cams & forks
- Chain wheels & take-up units
- Palletiser drive gearboxes
Anywhere on the line
- Spur, helical, bevel, worm & planetary gears to 3 m
- Complete gearbox rebuilds
- Keyed, splined & stepped shafts
- Couplings, sprockets & chain wheels
- Bushes, sleeves & bearing housings
- V-belt, flat & taper-lock pulleys
- Reverse engineering from a worn sample
- Fabricated frames, guards, hoppers & platforms
No part by that name — ask us anyway.
photographed in the catalog below
Catalog
The ceramic work, photographed
16 pieces off our shop floor. Tap any tile to see it full size.
Raw material shaker
A complete shaker unit on its trolley frame, painted and ready to ship.
Feeder hopper
A fabricated hopper on site, with the crew that built it.
Ceramic parts, one batch
Polishing spindle sleeves, slip pump bodies and valves, and a continuous mill drive pulley.
Grinder pulley
A multi-groove grinder pulley, machined and finished in-house.
Polishing spindles
A full production run of polishing spindles, turned to the original drawing.
Hopper and platform
The finished hopper and its support steelwork, standing outside the plant.
Grinder pulley — three views
The same pulley from three angles: rim, web and bore.
Shaker handover
The build team in front of a finished raw material shaker.
Raw mill pulley
Wrapped and ready — a multi-groove pulley for a ceramic raw mill.
Ceramic press overhaul
A press housing stripped down on the machine for maintenance.
Spindle housings
Machined spindle housings lined up straight off the lathe.
Shaker on the crane
The shaker under our overhead crane on its way out of the shop.
Night shift
Hopper and platform steelwork being welded up after dark.
Spindle batch
Dozens of finished spindles from a single order, ready for inspection.
Splined drive shafts
A matched pair of splined gear shafts for a ceramic line drive.
Hopper in build
Grinding and welding the discharge cone of the hopper.
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On film
The shop floor, moving
Straight from our Facebook page — press play on any of them.
Reels
Fairs & visits
Where ceramic takes us
Rimini, Milan, El Marg. The ceramic business is a small world, and we spend time in the rooms where its machines are made.
Milan, Italy
Winter in Lombardy
Partner meetings and machine shop visits across northern Italy — a snowbound Duomo between one factory floor and the next.
El Marg, Egypt
Techno Ceramic visits us
The owner of Techno Ceramic (China) on our own shop floor, setting up a supply cooperation for ceramic production line spare parts.
Clients
17 ceramic companies
The tile and porcelain manufacturers who send us their drawings, their worn parts and their shutdown schedules.
Gemma Ceramic
Ceramica Cleopatra
Art Ceramic
Royal Ceramic
Gloria Ceramic
Mayorca Ceramic
Ceramic Alfa
Ceramic Remas
Farsina Ceramic
Venezia Ceramica
Platino Ceramica
Majestic Porcelain
Lento Ceramica
Omega Ceramics
Ceramica Prima
Ceramica Granito
Amir Ceramics
Have a part to manufacture?
Send us your technical drawings — or even the worn-out part itself — and our engineering team will get back to you with a detailed quotation.
Contact
Get in touch
Two factories at your service — El Marg (Cairo) and Belbeis (Ash Sharqia). Send us a message and we will reply within one business day.