CERAME-UNIE Mission

The ceramics industry embraces an enormous variety of products, running from bricks and tiles through sanitaryware, clay pipes, refractories and technical ceramics to tableware and ornamentalware. The markets for these products may be very different, but the production processes have much in common, such as the selection of raw materials and the drying and firing of clays.
In 1962 Cérame-Unie was established in Brussels as the common mouthpiece of the European ceramics industries.
It thus represents the interests of the industry at the European level for more than a generation. Cérame-Unie has expanded the scope of its activities in tune with the intensification of the European integration process. It now deals with issues ranging from international trade policy through the liberalisation of natural gas markets and the prevention of pollution to health and safety policies