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The reasons of Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter success

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This time the presentation of Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter success factors is made with a FULL DEMO video, in English language, in which many special features of the machine are described and demonstrated.

In this video, you will find out why Masterpiuma is the right manual tile cutter if you’re looking for a tiling tool that will drastically simplify your way to work.

Demo video on Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter

Masterpiuma is a push machine. It allows you to easily cut new generation tiles, which can be textured, hard, thick and large format products, as for instance the gres porcelain tiles that are becoming increasingly popular. With this tile cutter you’ll be working in a proper position, with your back straight, and the cutter handle will act as a natural extension of your arm, so you can apply a higher pressure very easily.

The handle of this machine is indeed one of the secrets of Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter success. Being 5cm (almost 2 inches) longer than other machines, it gives you greater leverage. The handle is so powerful you can even make the incision using only one finger! You can apply a very high pressure or stay very light, depending on the type of tile that you’re cutting.

Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter is a versatile machine, which can be your right partner in many different situations. For this reason, many other features of the cutter are illustrated in this video. By using specific accessories, you can get the best cuts on a wide range of materials, not only porcelain but also glass tile and glass mosaic.

Learn how easy it is to carry this tool home, at the end of your working day. In the video you’ll find out that this cutter is easy to fold, with no need to disassemble any of its parts. This is one of the lightest and most durable tile cutters on the market, entirely made in Italy.

 

 

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MOTO-Flashline MOTORIZED DRY cutting SYSTEM for SLABS 0-134”

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MOTO-Flashline MOTORIZED DRY cutting SYSTEM for SLABS AND Porcelain tiles, GRANITE, MARBLE from 0 to 340 cm (134”)

This is the motor-powered evolution of Flash Line manual cutting system. With this system you can cut porcelain tile and slabs up to 20mm (approximately ¾ inch) thick. The machine itself has all the advantages of manual flash line (easy to transport, light, precision, patented locking system without the use of suction cups), with the addition of a motorized head with a professional diamond blade for ceramic and porcelain tile. Summarizing, this is a system for dry cutting porcelain slabs to 20mm (approximately ¾ inch) thickness.

 

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Diamond blade CGX115 “Freccia Oro” ideal for gres porcelain

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CGX Diamond Blade: A diamond blade that represents the evolution of the best-selling Art. CG. 20 years after Montolit manufactured its first diamond blade, this is the company’s new flagship: a super-professional patented diamond blade for dry cut of Grès Porcelain with an angle grinder. A unique item that best represents the Montolit’s philosophy, which with its 70-year history is constantly committed to developing cutting edge, innovative products.

Utilization: Dry and wet use
Height band diamond: 10 mm
Material: porcelain stoneware, hard ceramic
Application: laying tiles
Performance
Speed:
Very high
Finish: Very high
Life span: Very high
Use: angle/flexible grinder
Renewable blades with abrasive stone art.395B

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Work bench for large format tiles Art. 300-15

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Tiling professionals are increasingly requested to work with large format tiles and porcelain slabs. These products are indeed becoming more and more popular and though their sizes can vary, we’re still talking of 1 meter by 3 meters slabs or even more.

For this reason, Montolit has created Art. 300-15, the work bench for large format tiles with an aluminum and steel structure. Its particularity is in the fact of being modular, thus responding to the different requirements given by the size of the material which professional tilers find themselves dealing with.

Details of Montolit work bench for large format tiles

Disassembled Montolit work bench for easy transportationAssmebled work bench for pro tile setters working with large format tilesAmong the features of this work bench there are robustness, stability, practicality, easiness to carry and, of course, modularity.

The size of each work bench is 180cm by 90cm, with a height of 83cm. The weight is 31kg.

Montolit has created this work bench for large tiles based on the daily contact with both tile setters and porcelain slabs manufacturers.

The following video shows the use of a profiling system for different types of porcelain tiles, as well as stone and large format slabs. In the case of this specific demonstration, given the large size of the porcelain slab, the work bench used was actually Art. 300-15.

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1946-2016: Montolit celebrates 70 years of innovation in Tiling Tools

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Brevetti Montolit SpA celebrates 70 years of innovation in Tiling Tools and for this occasion has assembled pictures, videos and short texts that illustrate the company’s evolution, ever since it was created in Northern Italy by Vincenzo Montoli, in 1946.

Vincenzo Montoli – The founder of Brevetti Montolit Spa (1946-1953)

Photo pf Voincenzo Montolit who created Montolit Tiling Tools in 1946

Vincenzo Montoli, 1970’s

Vincenzo Montoli was born in 1892 in a small town close to Varese (Northern Italy). Since a very young age, he started developing his passion and skills within the mechanical sector, combining hands-on experience with strong creativity.

In the 1940’s, after dedicating several years to the study of products and solutions for both industrial and home applications, and following his own intuition, Vincenzo Montoli specializes in the cutting tools sector: shears and scissors for different purposes. September 1946 is when the company “Montoli Vincenzo & Sons” is created, the same one we now know as “Brevetti Montolit SpA”.

 

 

On the first montolit headquarters façade we read Montolit Scissors Factory

First Montolit headquarters

Inside the first Montolit factory located in Folla (Varese - Italy). 1946

Inside the first Montolit factory

1951. Montolit’s success starts in the field of cutting tools, covering various uses, including medical scissors used in hospitals for plaster cast removal

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Vincenzo Montoli bases his activities on research and development. He soon understands the importance of intellectual property in industrial applications. For this reason, his first inventions are immediately patented, and this term (“brevetti” is the Italian word for patented), still appears today in the name of the company “Brevetti Montolit”.

The name “Montolit” was already used in the 1950’s as a trademark for the products, and since 1978 it has been included in the company’s corporate name. The idea of contracting in a single term the company’s founder surname with the first 2 letters of Italy reflects the company’s policy of international expansion for their tools.

1960's Montolit terrazzo marble floor tile cutters

First line of floor cutters

The company’s success starts in the 1950’s, in the field of cutting tools, covering various uses, from sheet metal shears to the medical scissors used in hospitals for plaster cast removal.

Vicenzo Montoli works with his two sons, who follow him in the study of innovative products and manufacture of tools for different applications, devoting their time, energy and passion, daily, to the family project.

Over the 1950’s, however, Brevetti Montolit shifts its core activity from the development of scissors and shears for different uses to the design of tools for cutting construction materials such as tile, marble and roof shingles.

The most important machine during this period is a versatile and accurate “tile cutting and piercing tool”. The activity grows, and an increasing demand for larger machines leads to the widening of the company’s manufacturing spaces. Building a new factory was the natural consequence and the chosen location was Cantello, where Brevetti Montolit still has its headquarters today.

The Montolit factory and its innovating tools follow the construction sector boom (1953-1977)

1950's Montolit new plant tile cutter manufacturing department

1950’s Montolit tile cutter manufacturing department

View of the tile drilling tools manufacturing division in the 1950-1960's.

1950-1960’s tile drilling tools manufacturing division

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Montolit’s development carries on within the construction sector. There is a boom in the building industry in this period, and the equipment designed by Montolit, which takes into account both the characteristics of existing materials and the requirements of professional tilers, find a rapidly expanding market. The company evolves and grows to the nationwide dimension.

Montolit’s continuous manufacturing expansion leads to the construction of the new plant in Cantello (Varese, Italy), which thanks to several enlargements over the following decades, it is still the main company headquarters today.

Montolit’s activity soon starts expanding abroad as well. The company becomes a recognized provider of specific machines for cutting tiles and stone materials.Montolit at trade fairs in Italy 1960-1970

Montolit at international trade fairs 1970Montolit at trade fairs 1980-90The development of its international presence follows two main activities at the same time: on the one hand, the participation in trade fairs with the goal of increasing brand awareness and generating new contacts, on the other hand, building a network of Montolit agents and representatives.

Montolit tools are robust and easy to use. This meets the needs of end users who are mainly bricklayers and tilers.

The design and manufacture of Montolit tiling tools demonstrates unique skills, which are in time recognized with public awards, such as:

1968 – Vincenzo Montoli is appointed as “Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic”
1971 –  Prize to Vincenzo Montoli as “Meritorious Inventor”, awarded by the Italian Inventors Association
1974 – Brevetti Montolit receives the European award “Golden Mercury”

Picture of Vincenzo Montoli's son receiving an european award in 1974 in Rome

European Golden Mercury Award, Cerimony held in Rome, in 1974

The actual statue awarded to Vincenzo Montoli's son Ezio, in 1974

Actual Golden Mercury Award, currently at Montolit’s headquarters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the beginning of the 1970’s, the first members of the third generation of the family start joining the company. Since a very young age, Vincenzo Montoli’s grandchildren, Paola, Vincenzo (Vichi), Barbara and Stefano, get familiar with the factory, where they spend most of their time after school. This is how they start sharing the family’s passion, and understanding the mechanisms behind the company.

In the seventies, Paola is the first of Montoli’s grandchildren to start working within the company, after her graduation, and she works in the administration until the birth of her first daughter.

As a student, Vincenzo (Vichi) spends the holiday months working in the production departments and soon begins attending trade fairs in Italy and abroad. At the age of eighteen, in 1977, he personally follows the establishment of the foreign affiliate Montolit France. His studies, concluded with a degree in economics and trade, were combined with his attention to the family’s activities. In the second half of the seventies the original founder is less and less present in Montolit, which nevertheless continues to thrive under the guidance of his children and the growing contribution of his grandchildren.

Brevetti Montolit: New materials and professional tools (1978-2016)

In November 1978, the brothers Ezio and Egidio, who already owned the  Montol Mechanic Factory create (with equal shares) Brevetti Montolit Spa, the company we still know today. Around the mid-eighties the generational change at the top formally occurs: since 1986, two years after the death of its founder, his 27-year old grandson Vincenzo (Vichi) Montoli takes over the position of CEO. His brother in law, Giuseppe Rovera (administration manager), had recently joined the team and later also Barbara and Stefano (engineer) start working within the company. The company’s growth and prosperity keeps being strongly tied to the familiar leadership that had always been its characteristic.

Montolit catalogue in French 1960

Montolit Catalogue 1960

Montolit catalogue for Diamond tools 1984

Montolit catalogue 1984

Montolit tiling tools catalogue 2014

Montolit catalogue 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The success of this transition is facilitated by several factors: one is certainly the apprenticeship, the path that the young Montoli family members carry on within the company’s production, another is the stability of staff who is able to act as a connection with new arrivals and make the transmission of skills. An example is Montolit’s current quality manager, he came into Montolit when he was only a little more than a child, he has been in the company for over 50 years and he is the father of another young employee.

Montolit mechanical division 1990

Montolit mechanical division – 1990

Montolit quality control 2000

Montolit quality control – 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The company’s workforce has reached a peak between the seventies and eighties with 100 employees. Today, the internal workforce is of approximately 70 jobs, but the activity scope has expanded with sales agents, for a total of 120 people. The Montoli family has also set up specific companies that deal with different stages of production or treatment of different materials, such as Italmont and Cantecno, and acquired a majority stake in a foundry located in the same territory, which already was Montolit’s supplier. Lately, however, a reorganization plan has been implemented to simplify the group structure, making it more modern and ready to face the new global challenges.

In the last thirty years the company has had to adapt to the many changes which have affected its reference market. From the technical point of view materials research has led the construction industry to the use larger and harder products. Tools for cutting and drilling needed to evolve accordingly and in recent years  close collaboration has begun between producers of materials and tiling and laying tools for manufacturers, in order to increase synergies and adopt compatible solutions.

Manual tile cutter Masterpiuma Evoluzione 3 detail

Manual tile cutter Masterpiuma P3 detail

Montolit manual tile cutter Slalom for curve cuts

Manual machine to make curve cuts on tile

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since the 1990’s, Montolit has enjoyed considerable success with lines of diamond tools (core bits, diamond blades for wet saws) designed specifically to deal with modern materials, which still account for over half of the turnover. From a commercial point of view, the company has had to manage increase of competition in a global market and, in recent years, due to the crisis in the construction sector there has been a significant drop in turnover in Italy. The presence of an extended sales network in almost 100 countries worldwide allows the Brevetti Montolit to balance the national decrease with higher exports.

Participation in trade fairs, key factor for the international expansion, has been revised and now includes only major international events in Italy and abroad (eg. Cersaie, Coverings, MCE). It was instead strengthened direct communication to installers and industry professionals, end-users of Montolit’s products, to whom is dedicated to a special information section on the company website in several languages, the “Tiler’s blog “. As for installers’ training and update, the company has been cooperating with the most important professional training schools. In Italy there is somehow a lack of specific structures in this field, as opposed to what happens in Switzerland or in Northern Europe. Another important way to keep in contact with prospective industry professionals is by collaborating with the key schools for this sector, which Montolit has been doing for several years.

Vincenzo (Vichi) Montoli holding the first tile cutter ever made by Montolit

Montolit’s first tile cutter

Vincenzo (Vichi) Montoli using a manual large format tile cutter

Vincenzo (Vichi) Montoli using a manual large format tile cutter

 

 
Recently, as recognition of the work made in the territory, Vincenzo Montoli, founder of the company, was declared an honorary citizen of Cantello, the city where Montolit’s main facilities have been located for 70 years, and the access road to the company’s headquarters has been named after him. The ceremony, which saw the participation of the entire Montoli family and Montolit’s workers, culminated with the laying of a memorial plaque at the City’s council chamber.

Montolit tile cutters museum at Cantello headquarters

Montolit tile cutters museum at Cantello headquarters

Vincenzo Montoli square inauguration ceremony 2014

Vincenzo Montoli square inauguration ceremony – 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Montolit training meetings with professional tilers across Europe

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Demos and training sessions promoted by Montolit for professional tilers continue in various European countries.

Training for professional tilers by Montolit tiling tools in OsloDemonstration Montolit tools for large format tiles OsloThe images refer to the event recently held in Oslo (Norway), in collaboration with the local partner Spesialverktoy as well as with Florim and Mapei, that were directly involved in this specific initiative.
The main topic, following increasing demand, was handling and installation of large format tiles, up to 240cmx120cm and 300cmx160cm.

The use of Montolit Tiling Tools was vital to demonstrate how professional tile setters can easily and safely handle and lay large porcelain slabs. The advantages are the saving of time, since it is possible to work with less staff, savings in terms of material used because safe handling of large format tiles contributes to less damage.

These demonstrations were carried out by a German professional tiler who has been setting slabs for more than 10 years and specializes exclusively in projects that include large format tile laying in several countries of northern Europe. Actively involving professional tilers in this type of demonstrations contributes to majorly sharing experience and “tricks of the trade” between them.

During the meeting, using Montolit tools, professionals explained in a practical way how to use a wide range of products related to the large format porcelain tiles and their different functionality. Montolit presented their proposal called “PROGETTO300”, a full range of tiling tools specifically designed for handling and laying large format tiles, with great emphasis on:
Multifunctional STL125GF diamond blade, for cutting and grinding porcelain tiles and slabs
SUPERPROFILE, ceramics and porcelain tiles and slabs profiling system that can perform miter cuts and different types of edge processing, and it’s perfect for creating baseboards and skirting, no limits on dimension
Flash-line 300-FL for fast and precise tile cutting up to 340 cm

In addition, the following tools were also used:
Corner 300-95-06, useful corner protectors for large size slabs that avoid shock and damage
300-15 workbench, specifically designed for processing large slabs and preparation for laying
Superstick 300-70, a system composed of adjustable frames and super powerful suction cups for handling the slabs
300-VA kit, containing the most important diamond tools for these materials
FS drills for dry drilling holes and tile hole shappers and enlargers FPU10-FPU20
Polishing and finishing PDRKIT, diamond pads for sanding and polishing dry or wet porcelain tiles and natural stone.

The professional tilers who participated in the event had the chance to try the products in person and understood and appreciated their functionality as well as their correct usage contexts.

 

 

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New Must-Have Montolit STL Multifunction Diamond Cup Wheel

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Brevetti Montolit Spa is the Italian leading Tiling Tools Manufacturer, with 70 years of history, selling across 120 countries.

The New STL Diamond Cup Wheel is one of our best-selling tools that can save a tiler’s day when finishing work on Porcelain Tile, Ceramics, Marble, Granite, Concrete, etc.

This Multi function tool is ideal for tile edging,  beveling, rounding, grinding, flattening, small cuts, side indentations & more! (However it does not replace a standard diamond blade)

STL has a diameter of 5” (125mm), and fits any 5” (125mm) or 4” (100mm) angle grinder.

Check out the demo video for this must-have tiling tool:

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The reasons of Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter success

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This time the presentation of Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter success factors is made with a FULL DEMO video, in English language, in which many special features of the machine are described and demonstrated.

In this video, you will find out why Masterpiuma is the right manual tile cutter if you’re looking for a tiling tool that will drastically simplify your way to work.

Demo video on Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter

Masterpiuma is a push machine. It allows you to easily cut new generation tiles, which can be textured, hard, thick and large format products, as for instance the gres porcelain tiles that are becoming increasingly popular. With this tile cutter you’ll be working in a proper position, with your back straight, and the cutter handle will act as a natural extension of your arm, so you can apply a higher pressure very easily.

The handle of this machine is indeed one of the secrets of Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter success. Being 5cm (almost 2 inches) longer than other machines, it gives you greater leverage. The handle is so powerful you can even make the incision using only one finger! You can apply a very high pressure or stay very light, depending on the type of tile that you’re cutting.

Montolit Masterpiuma manual tile cutter is a versatile machine, which can be your right partner in many different situations. For this reason, many other features of the cutter are illustrated in this video. By using specific accessories, you can get the best cuts on a wide range of materials, not only porcelain but also glass tile and glass mosaic.

Learn how easy it is to carry this tool home, at the end of your working day. In the video you’ll find out that this cutter is easy to fold, with no need to disassemble any of its parts. This is one of the lightest and most durable tile cutters on the market, entirely made in Italy.

 

 

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MOTO-Flashline MOTORIZED DRY cutting SYSTEM for SLABS 0-134”

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MOTO-Flashline MOTORIZED DRY cutting SYSTEM for SLABS AND Porcelain tiles, GRANITE, MARBLE from 0 to 340 cm (134”)

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This is the motor-powered evolution of Flash Line manual cutting system. With this system you can cut porcelain tile and slabs up to 20mm (approximately ¾ inch) thick. The machine itself has all the advantages of manual flash line (easy to transport, light, precision, patented locking system without the use of suction cups), with the addition of a motorized head with a professional diamond blade for ceramic and porcelain tile. Summarizing, this is a system for dry cutting porcelain slabs to 20mm (approximately ¾ inch) thickness.

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Diamond blade CGX115 “Freccia Oro” ideal for gres porcelain

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CGX Diamond Blade: A diamond blade that represents the evolution of the best-selling Art. CG. 20 years after Montolit manufactured its first diamond blade, this is the company’s new flagship: a super-professional patented diamond blade for dry cut of Grès Porcelain with an angle grinder. A unique item that best represents the Montolit’s philosophy, which with its 70-year history is constantly committed to developing cutting edge, innovative products.

Utilization: Dry and wet use
Height band diamond: 10 mm
Material: porcelain stoneware, hard ceramic
Application: laying tiles
Performance
Speed:
Very high
Finish: Very high
Life span: Very high
Use: angle/flexible grinder
Renewable blades with abrasive stone art.395B

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3 exciting news for tile installers!

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During the last weeks Montolit launched on the worldwide market few exciting new tiling tools.

The first release was the upgraded version of the popular diamond blade CG (dry use for grinder). The new CG diamond blade is called CGX and it’s built with the DNA technology. CGX is currently considered the best Montolit dry cutting blade for grinder thanks to his speed and capability to cut several types of difficult porcelain tiles.
Here you can visit the CGX product page: The best blade for porcelain tiles

Another new release has been the manual powerful handling system Liftile. This system is designed to easily handle heavy large format tiles (3mt+ // 10ft+) without the need to use and pay for a complex and expensive hydraulic or pneumatic system. Thanks to this machine a tile setter can install in safety and with accurancy a wide range of giant tiles.

Thanks to the growing of 2 cm porcelain tiles like Dekton Cosentino’s slabs and many more incredible hard materials, Montolit recently developed an unique and innovative diamond blade (wet use), capable to easily cut (and to do the 45 degrees cut/jolly) these very dense body porcelain materials and agglomerates.
The name of this blade is SCXS-T serie(silenced version), available in: 200mm (8’’), 250mm (10’’), 300mm (12’’), 350mm (14’’) and 400mm (16’’).
Because the tile market is quickly evolving Montolit is currently cooperating with the main ceramic manufacturers, tiling schools and adhesive producers for developping advanced solutions to facilitate the tiler’s life. More news are coming, let’s stay tuned!

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Diamond Countersink Tools

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We would like to present you another new Montolit tool!

Bevel Ease chamfers and stress relieves rough holes in glass, ceramic and porcelain tiles.

Diamond bit for a smooth, high-end finish.
Very useful to reduce the risk of cracking with standard and large format tiles subjected to tension (ex tightened plumbing, led lights etc)
Very useful to improve the edge finishing of exposed holes

Dry or wet use

Adaptors are also available for drill machines

Item codes:

FPS35 (for holes from 5 mm (3/16″) to 35mm (1 – 3/8″)
FPS75 (for holes from 35 mm (1 – 3/8″) to 75 mm (3″)

 

NOTE! This is not a core bit for drilling. It doesn’t make holes but it bevels the hole cleaning and reinforcing the borders when the borders are chipped or need to be clean.

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How to cut deep textured porcelain tile with a manual tile cutter

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Is it possible to cut high textured porcelain tiles with a manual tile cutter?

Well, it mostly depends on the type of texture and on the tile cutter that you own.

If the shape/design of the texture is not very deep, a good technique to cut the tile is to repeat the incision more than one time in order to create deep and complete incision.

Sometimes the texture is so deep and complex that the cutting wheel isn’t able to make the incision. In these situations we recommend to try to cut the tile face down (making the incision on the back of the tile).

The video shows this technique applied to a very popular textured tile sold in the UK market. The only way to cut the tile was face down with the consecutive deep and powerful incision.

For cutting that specific porcelain tile named Stratus, we used a Masterpiuma tile cutter because the incision handle of this cutter is spring loaded and this unique feature allows the wheel to follow the shape of textured tiles.

spring loaded small tile cutter for porcelain

However, to properly split these kind of tiles we recommend to use a wet tile saw with a proper diamond blade instead of a manual snap cutter.

A wet tile saw will be able to cut any texture giving you a perfect edge finishing.

For a full product demo about this cutter please click here: snap cutter for textured tiles.

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How to Work in Small Spaces with a Manual Tile Cutter

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A small manual tile cutter designed to allows you to work in tiny spaces such as bathrooms and kitchens.

Small and Light, Montolit Minipiuma is a push tile cutter designed to cut small porcelain tiles.
This small cutter is available in 2 sizes:
26P allowing you to cut 36cm/14”
43P allowing you to cut 45cm/18”.
These cutters are also light and portable, infact the weight of the 26P is 3.2KG while the 43P is 3.7KG.

It has the same features of the big sister Montolit Masterpiuma but in a smaller way.

For this reason Montolit Minipiuma has lots of advantages such as:
This tile cutter, thanks to its size allows you to work in small rooms such as bathrooms and kitchens without losing the cutting quality.
It has the same Titanium Coated incision wheel of Montolit Masterpiuma P3 Evo.
You can make from -45° to 45° cuts thanks to the rotating measurement square guide.
The cutter is also provided with a lateral measurement square system that allows the user to make several cuts of the same length without loosing time.
Like the our bigger manual tile cutters, Montolit Minipiuma is a singol bar machine. This feature allow you to make strong incision without loosing power during the cut.
This small tile cutter is also perfect to cut mosaic expecially with Mosakit (Art. 58) that can fit without any problem like with the bigger tile cutters.

This cutter is really strong and durable but, depending on your needs, it can be purcheased without or with case box to secure it during transports between one job site to the other.

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The reason why the age of pull tile cutters is ending.

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push or pull snap tile cutter

Why it is predictable that within a few years you won’t find pull tile cutters on the worldwide market anymore.

There are a few key reasons that explain the gradual extinction of this way of cutting tiles.

Let’s start from the beginning.

Montolit has been one of the pioneer companies in producing pull tile cutters.

At that time tiles were soft and very easy to cut. Porcelain didn’t exist and the most popular tile size was extremely small. Pulling while cutting those small tiles was a good solution because there wasn’t the need to apply a lot of pressure and the operator’s wrist and back didn’t suffer any consequence from that action.

Summarizing, the size and softness of the old tiles (ceramic tiles) supported the past growing of small pull tile cutters, and many installers got used to pull while cutting tiles. Sure, push tile cutters were already on the market but the market share was not so big.

The launch and expansion of Gres Porcelain in the market started to change this scenario. We’re talking now about a totally different material, extremely hard, which in time evolved into porcelain tiles with complex and deep textures.

This period was what we can consider the “middle ages” for tile cutters. Big manufacturers started to design strong 1 bar push tile cutters, able to easily cut hard porcelain with a minimum effort, saving operators’ wrists from injuries.

However, as said before, this period may be called “middle ages” because pull tile cutters were still performing reasonably well on small sized porcelain tiles with standard thickness.

The big revolution started approximately in 2006 – 2008, when long porcelain tiles started to become popular (90+ cm | 36+ inches) and thicker.

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With these new tile sizes and hardness, pulling while cutting tiles became extremely frustrating for many tile setters. Especially with tiles longer than 90 cm/36”

For these reasons, almost all tile cutters manufacturers started to design and produce more and more push machines, slowly abandoning the pull technology. This process is now registering a strong acceleration and as stated on the headline above, it is reasonable to predict that pull tile cutters will disappear from the market in a few years.

Montolit still has one last version of professional pull tile cutter on its catalogue, but it will soon be part of the company’s museum.

You could be interested in reading also this article: Pull or Push Tile cutters, which is the best solution.

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Universal Diamond Milling Bit for Enlarging and Shaping Holes – FPU

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Use: Dry and wet use

FPU is a versatile milling bit designed to enlarge, shape and/or round bevel existing holes in Porcelain, Hard Ceramic, Granite and Marble.

FPU is also suitable to easily create round side indentation necessary to accomodate pipes or electric wire lines.

This is a save money tool because with just one standard core bit + one FPU you are able to create many different hole sizes, without needing to buy several different core bits.

FPU is manufactured with top quality raw materials and high end production processes to grant outstanding performances.

It can be used with any standard grinder.

No adaptors needed.

Recommended for Tile Setters, General Contractors, Plumbers and Electricians.

To create holes, we recommend using our FS Diamond Drills.

To smooth the circumference of existing holes, it is recommended to use our FPS Diamond Drills.

Adaptors are also available for drill machines.


Attention! FPU isn’t designed to make holes. FPU is designed to shape and enlarge existing holes.

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How to enlarge or shape existing holes in porcelain tiles?

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FPU is a new diamond core bit, actually it isn’t a core bit, we can call it diamond milling bit.
Many times when the hole is already done, tile fixers or plumbers discover that that hole isn’t big enough or the pipe isn’t in that exact position.

It is a painful situation because enlarging or shaping existing round holes is quite difficult and time consuming.
Exactly to solve this problem Montolit designed a new generation milling diamond core bits designed to enlarge or shape existing holes.

This milling bit is also a perfect solution to create round side indentations.
Due to its technology these milling bits work in almost any stone material such us: Porcelain Tiles, Ceramic Tiles, Marble, Granite and natural stones.

These innovative diamond tools are dry use and they can fit any existing angle grinder.

Watch the video presentation of the product.
For detailed information please visit the product page clicking here: Diamond Milling Bit FPU

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Suction cup for large format tiles

PROFESSIONAL VACUUM CLEANER MT Hoov FOR DUST AND LIQUIDS

UNIVERSAL GRINDING CUP WHEELS “VORTEX” PUSV

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Universal diamond grinding wheel for polishing

Utilization: Dry and Wet use

Material: concrete, stone like materials

Application: surface polishing, floor renewal, wall and floor smoothing,concrete smear removal, threshold setting.

Performance:
Speed: high
Finish: good
Life span: high

Use: grinder machine equipped with dust suction

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