Vitrified tile is a tile produced using vitrification . Vitrified tiles are used as an alternative to marble and granite flooring. Vitrified tiles in India come from Morbi, Ahmendnagar, Rajasthan and few places. You have Vitrified tiles imported from different countries like China, Korea, Italy, etc.

But Vitrified tiles of China are lowest in cost as compared to any other country. Not only Tiles, but china is known for lowest products prices in world be it clothing, tiles or machinery. This is because Chinese believe in mass-production and mass-consumption formula and keep their profit margins low. Also China believes in not letting the world compete them in any product pricewise. But now due to changed norms by Indian government and increase in duty on imported products, the prices of china products and tiles are same as Indian products and tiles.

Because of this heavy duty, the demand for china products and tiles has gone exceptionally low in India.

Otherwise china has been very famous for its clay namely, China Clay and very masters in Tile making, crockery, etc. But due to competition, Chinese have started compromising on quality to beat other countries price-wise.

That means tiles and marbles available in India are no more produced or come from China?

That’s not 100% true. There are companies that still outsource tiles from china. There are companies that have their manufacturing set ups in China only, when imported only brand names are given to them.