Interviews
People from the industry talk about projects, good practices and... how our products have made a difference on building sites.
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3/28/2025
RE-CON AGG 90: an admixture for challenging aggregates in cold climates
Mapei AS R&D team has developed RE-CON AGG 90, an innovative water absorption inhibitor designed for challenging aggregates in Nordic climates. The researchers successfully demonstrated its potential to replace up to 50% of natural aggregates with…
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3/25/2025
Rapidity, colour and quality: this is how Mapei enters the motorsport world
For its rapid-filming and non-slip properties, Mapecoat TNS Race Track acrylic resin continues to be chosen by professional applicators to create run-off areas and protect kerbs on circuits hosting top-level competitions such as Formula 1 and…
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3/10/2025
Mapei: culture and innovation to build the future
For over 85 years, Mapei has made culture a central value for its identity and growth. "Our expertise has allowed us to play our part in important restoration and recovery projects on assets of great value and public interest, but our vocation goes…
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9/13/2018
Installing large format tiles
Large format ceramic tiles cover a larger area, require fewer gaps and breaks (grout lines and expansion joints, which are often overlooked) and create the illusion of a monolithic, seamless finish. The larger the tiles, the fewer the number of gaps…
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8/22/2018
Business culture for Africa
A businesswoman in finance and telecommunications, Letizia Brichetto Arnaboldi Moratti was the first woman to be the head of RAI Italian State Broadcasting Company (1994-1996). She was the Italian Minister of Education, University and Scientific…
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8/21/2018
A city for everyone, without suburbs
A judge and the first woman to become the President of the Milan Court in 2007, Livia Pomodoro has been the President of the Milan Center for Food Law and Policy since 2014, which manages the legacy of Expo 2015. In 2016 she was appointed President…
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7/23/2018
Public-private partnerships to be replicated in other cities
Manfredi Catella tells us about the ambitious real-estate plans for the city: Porta Nuova, Porta Volta and the projects for the future.
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7/13/2018
Architecture: between memories and experimentation
Mario Botta talks to us about his work and the transformation of Milan. Mario Botta was born in 1943 in Mendrisio (Switzerland) and, at the age of just 16, he had already designed his first single family house. It was while studying at university…
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7/12/2018
Milan, capital of research and sustainability
Dianna Bracco was born in Milan and graduated in chemistry from Pavia University, where she was also awarded an honorary degree in pharmacy, before going on to take a degree in medicine from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome. She is…
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5/21/2018
The future of Milan and a new approach to the cities
An interview with the architect Stefano Boeri, recently nominated president of la Triennale Di Milano.
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9/5/2017
Works of architecture as sustainable works of art
Interview to Simone Micheli, author of numerous works for public institutions and important private clients in the realms of residential and communal facilities. He won, among the others, the Best of Houzz Award 2016, the Codega Prize, the 2016…
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7/13/2017
Polyglass USA
Polyglass U.S.A., Inc. manufactures bitumen and synthetic waterproofing membranes for low- and steep-slope roof applications that are distributed across the whole of the American territory. But the story of Polyglass USA has its roots in Italy. In…
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3/16/2018
Matera, between tradition and technology according to the works director
Interview with the works director of Matera Biagio Ferrara
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3/16/2018
Matera, between technology and tradition for the project's architects
Interviewing the architects who designed the interventions in Matera, Sergio Lamacchia and Maria Teresa Fasano.
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7/13/2017
Mapei in North America: hard work and determination
Interview with Nick Di Tempora, Honorary Chairman of the Board of Mapei Corp., about Mapei in North America: hard work and determination. This year Mapei is celebrating 80 years in business. Mapei arrived in the North American market in the 1970s,…
