Dr. Giorgio Squinzi Named TCNA 2022 Tile Person of the Year
The Tile Council of North America has named Dr. Giorgio Squinzi the 2022 Tile Person of the Year. Squinzi, who passed in 2019, was a chemist and a forward-thinking businessman with great humanitarian and entrepreneurial qualities.
Born in 1943 in Cisano Bergamasco, where his family had been displaced by the war, Dr. Squinzi was raised in Milan where, in 1937, his father Rodolfo founded MAPEI, a small company that manufactured auxiliary materials for construction and industry.