February 2014. For immediate release. Del Conca USA, the new North American manufacturing facility of Ceramica del Conca S.p.A. (one of Italy’s premier producers of porcelain stoneware tile) slated to “inaugurate” the factory this spring, has announced that Acme Brick Tile & Stone (formerly Jenkins Brick & Tile) Berkshire Hathaway Companies has recently signed on as its “first official distributor.”
The new North American Del Conca USA facility in Loudon County, Tennessee (just south of Knoxville) will include a 30,000 square meter/323,000 square foot complex with production facilities, research labs, showrooms and administrative offices. With an initial investment of $50 million US, tile production is planned to begin in early 2014, and based upon projected business growth, another investment of $20 million US will take place in the next four-to-six years.