Fiandre Architectural Surfaces is an Italian world-leading maker of top-quality high-performing ceramic surfaces for prestigious architectural projects and cutting-edge applications. The company offers products recreating some of the world's best-known and most prestigious marbles, granites and quarried stones, offering similar aesthetic properties with improved technical qualities. Since 2009 the company has responded to current trends in the market with an even stronger focus on technology and ecology with the launch of two very important new products such as Active Surfaces™, a state-of-the-art productive technology that uses titanium dioxide and silver to transform ceramics into an eco-active material capable of cutting pollutants and the principal strains of bacteria by up to 99.9%. Fiandre’s core business is the non-residential market, and so the marketing policy does not focus exclusively on the classic "wholesaler to final customer" distribution channel but has a sales force and a key account division performing constant widespread promotion among architects and designers, the decision-makers in large-scale projects. Fiandre has been listed on the stock exchange since June 2001, and was the first to join the STAR section of the Telematic Stock Exchange in Milan. Fiandre officially left the Italian stock exchange on March 8, 2011.