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The Cosentino Group, world leader in the production and distribution of innovative surfaces for architecture and design, enters into a collaboration agreement with tennis player Rafa Nadal, considered the best Spanish athlete of all time. As part of this alliance, Cosentino will develop various promotional and support actions together with Nadal.
The first of these actions will be to sponsor the “Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar” project, the tennis academy that the athlete will open soon in his hometown of Manacor (Majorca/Mallorca, Spain) to promote the values of sport among youngsters.
The Cosentino Group supports this high-performance educational and sports complex via its flagship products Silestone®, world leader of quartz surfaces, and Dekton®, the Group’s new ultra-compact surface that is conquering the international architecture and design markets.
It is precisely the material Dekton by Cosentino® that will be mainly used for the various facilities of the “Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar”. Façades, flooring and other cladding created with this innovative product will grace the spaces of the Academy. Silestone® will also be used in areas such as the kitchens and bathrooms of the complex, the design for which has been created by two architectural firms from Majorca and Barcelona.
According to Santiago Alfonso, Cosentino Group’s Director of Marketing and Communications, “collaborating with Rafa Nadal is a source of great pride for us all. Nadal is so much more than an exceptional athlete. His desire to achieve, his strength and ability to lead are some of the values that have made him a global celebrity, recognised and admired everywhere. For Cosentino, where we have always committed ourselves to continually improve, innovate and search for that leadership to succeed, this partnership represents great satisfaction for all our employees, partners and customers worldwide”.
For his part, Rafa Nadal has expressed his satisfaction with this new alliance with “a Spanish company that is a world leader in its sector, encompassing a series of values with which I fully identify, in addition to supporting sport in Spain for a long time. I am sure that this collaboration project with Cosentino, starting with its help in the construction of the Academy, will be a long-lasting one and be productive for both parties.”
