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Mariwasa stopped trading in the stock exchange in December 1999, decided to close its main tile manufacturing plant in 2001 in Rosario, Pasig, [7] and defaulted in 2003. Mariwas took a $14.5 million loan from the International Finance Corporation in 1999 as part of a restructuring of Mariwasa's financing and operations.
During the early 1900s, Don Jose Machuca y Romeo was the foremost producer of Mediterranean tiles in the Philippines. His son, Don Pepe, an Audencia, established Mosaicos Machuca in an ancestral house located on Calle Tanduay in San Miguel, Manila, while the tile factory itself was situated beside the Pasig River.
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Swisstek (Ceylon) PLC is a tile grout and tile mortar manufacturing company in Sri Lanka. The company was established in 1967 as Parquet (Ceylon) Ltd to manufacture parquetry. Parquet (Ceylon) signed an agreement with Switzerland-based Bauwerk AG for technology collaboration and started supplying for the domestic and foreign markets under the ...
Utang na loob [5] [57] — A Tagalog phrase which is a Filipino cultural trait that may roughly mean an internal debt of gratitude or a sense of obligation to reciprocate. Fall in line [citation needed] — To line up. Blocktime [citation needed] — Units of air time sold by a broadcaster sold for use by another entity, often an advertiser or ...
New roof section, San Agustin, Gran Canaria Mission tile in Spain Monk and Nun, also known as pan and cover, mission tiling, Spanish tile, gutter tile, [1] or barrel tile, is a style of arranging roof tiles, using semi-cylindrical tiles similar to imbrex and tegula, but instead of alternating rows of flat tiles (tegulae) and arched tiles (imbrices), both rows consist of the arched tile.
Variations in tile thickness can be handled by adjusting the amount of mortar under each part of the tile, by using wide grout lines that "ramp" between different thicknesses, or by using a cold chisel to knock off high spots. Some stone tiles such as polished granite, marble, and travertine are very slippery when wet.
Panel of the Battle of Aljubarrota by Portuguese artist Jorge Colaço, 1922. Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈle(j)ʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu], Spanish:; from the Arabic الزليج, al-zillīj) [1] [2] is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework.