Equipment for the manufacture of slabs of ceramic material, comprising: - a load-bearing structure; - at least one supporting surface associated with said load-bearing structure and movable along a direction of forward movement, said supporting surface being intended to support a continuous slab made of a ceramic material to be compacted; - pressing means associated with said load-bearing structure and comprising at least one pressing body arranged above said supporting surface and movable between a home position, wherein it is moved away from said supporting surface and allows the forward movement of said continuous slab along said direction of forward movement, and an operating position, wherein it is moved close to said supporting surface so as to press a portion of said continuous slab and to obtain at least one compacted slab of predefined dimensions, separate from said continuous slab; wherein said equipment comprises containment means of said portion in said operating position which are locked together with said pressing body; wherein said pressing body has at least one pressing surface, facing said supporting surface and adapted to contact the continuous slab in said operating position, and by the fact that said containment means are associated with said pressing surface; said containment means comprise at least one containment element associated with said pressing surface and protruding below it, said containment element defining with said supporting surface a containment volume of said portion, with said pressing body in the operating position; where said containment element comprises at least one material of the elastically deformable type, said containment element being adapted to compress during said pressing; and characterised in that said containment element comprises at least one internal portion made of said elastically deformable material and at least one external portion, made of a non-stick material and associated with said internal portion so as to cover it, said external portion defining a contact surface intended, in use, to contact said ceramic material. - a load-bearing structure; - at least one supporting surface associated with said load-bearing structure and movable along a direction of forward movement, said supporting surface being intended to support a continuous slab made of a ceramic material to be compacted; - pressing means associated with said load-bearing structure and comprising at least one pressing body arranged above said supporting surface and movable between a home position, wherein it is moved away from said supporting surface and allows the forward movement of said continuous slab along said direction of forward movement, and an operating position, wherein it is moved close to said supporting surface so as to press a portion of said continuous slab and to obtain at least one compacted slab of predefined dimensions, separate from said continuous slab; wherein said equipment comprises containment means of said portion in said operating position which are locked together with said pressing body; wherein said pressing body has at least one pressing surface, facing said supporting surface and adapted to contact the continuous slab in said operating position, and by the fact that said containment means are associated with said pressing surface; said containment means comprise at least one containment element associated with said pressing surface and protruding below it, said containment element defining with said supporting surface a containment volume of said portion, with said pressing body in the operating position; where said containment element comprises at least one material of the elastically deformable type, said containment element being adapted to compress during said pressing; and characterised in that said containment element comprises at least one internal portion made of said elastically deformable material and at least one external portion, made of a non-stick material and associated with said internal portion so as to cover it, said external portion defining a contact surface intended, in use, to contact said ceramic material.