New Series

Surviving in a Niche

With the report on the Tuilerie-Briqueterie Pierre Lanter
in Hochfelden/Alsace, France, ZI Brick and Tile Industry International is launching a new series of articles to be published in no particular order under the heading “Surviving in a Niche”.

We are delighted to have enlisted the vastly knowledgeable expert and worldwide acknowledged specialist Willi Bender for the first reports on the history of brickworks and roofing tile factories. As the author of the book “Lexikon der Ziegel”, co-editor of the standard work “Brick and Tile Making” and with his new book “Vom Ziegelgott zum...

Issue 06/2021

Company museum documents brick history

Jungk brickworks was founded in 1862 and developed by a five generations to a major brickworks in Europe. Having stepped down from management of the company, senior director Ernst K. Jungk has...

Issue 8/2015

Clay brick and tile making – fit for the future?

To meet customer requirements, almost all brickworks offer a wide range of products, although the main turnover is generated with only a small part of the products. The talk presents the consequences...

Issue 11/2012

Waste heat utilization and integrated energy supply in brick and tile factories

When, as a result of increasing energy prices, the costs incurred for the energy-intensive process steps of drying and firing rise, measures for energy saving and the economically efficient use of...

Issue 10/2010 (Über)Leben und Erfolg in der Nische (Bitte hier der Standard Text einführen)

What does “Fritz” the clay owl have in common with a cloister brick? – At Ziegelwerk Klaus Huber GmbH & Co. KG both are handmade

1 History The origins of this brickworks go back to the 1880s when it manufactured clay roofing tiles and masonry bricks as a seasonal brickworks for the local manor. The raw materials available to a...

Issue 11/2010 Interview with Luis Carlos Barbosa Lima, President of Anicer (National Association of the Brazilian Ceramic Industry)

Brazilian Brick and Tile Industry expects further growth

Zi: Mr Lima, the 39th National Meeting of the Brazilian Red Ceramic Industry, which your association Anicer (National Association of the Ceramic Industry) organized, is under way here in Florianopolis...

ZI 08/2009