Issue 6/2011

Gooiland is a region in the Netherlands with a landscape shaped by moors, woods, meadows and small lakes. For this region the architect Koen van...

In 2010, a number of plants were built and started up in the area around Nador. The last plant to start production was Salamabriq, which is located...

In recent months Bedeschi has strengthened its presence in Asia and South America with the realization of major orders in Argentina and Saudi Arabia....

Customized solutions as well as products and systems that provide more efficiency and sustainability – to meet this challenge, the Beumer group (...

With the modernization of its semi-industrial laboratory unit, the French company Cleia (www.cleia-engineering.com) is underpinning its expertise as...

Brazil‘s heavy clay sector is preparing for the 40th National Meeting of the red ceramic industry, which this year will be held from 24th to 27th of...

Around 3 000 attendees came to this year‘s Wie­ner­berger Brick Masonry

The first construction materials forum entitled “Bricks and Tiles – Developments. Trends. Perspectives” hosted by IFF ­Weimar – Weimar Institute for...

On 1 April the Fritz Höger Prize for Brick Architecture 2011 was awarded

Despite first signs of recovery, housing construction in Germany still trails well behind most of the country’s neighbours in 2011. This is shown...

Consense, the International Trade Fair and Congress for Sustainable Building, Investment, Operations and Maintenance will be providing international...

Research project conducted by: Research Alliance of the Brick and Tile Industry reg'd (FGZ) Project number AiF 15868 N Promoted by BMWi through the...

The thermal evolution of masonry bricks over the past 10 years has engendered the widespread dissemination of stuffed masonry units in general, but...

Nowadays, robots in brickworks fulfil a wide variety of functions. These may all work perfectly, but for each new brick format introduced it is...

Following a rundown of determining parameters for the drying process, Part 1 (Zi 5/2011, pages 12–26) of this report compared and analysed measured...

At the request of the “Koninklijk Verbond van Nederlandse Baksteenfabrikanten” (KNB = Royal Association of Dutch Brick Manufacturers) and the...