Issue 10/2011

The simple elegance of the light-coloured brick building is evolved with the carefully defined proportions and effective combination of materials. The...

Lassmann KG, a company involved in clay mining and the supply of raw materials in Europe for 75 years is currently extracting clays selectively in...

Business is flourishing so well at Verkhnevolzhskiy­ Brick-Making Plant LLC (VVKZ), RU-Yesinka, that the Freymatic Multicut multiwire cutter, which...

The internationally operating plant manufacturing company Eisenmann and Ritter XL Solar, the subsidiary of the Ritter Group, specializing in...

What is there to improve on a classical double-trough interlocking tile? Actually, such a timeless roof tile should already be about as good as it can...

Tondach Gleinstätten AG has been awarded an exclusive contract from the Russian general contractor covering the supply of roofing material for the...

400 t pressing force; 17.5 pressings per minute with four roof tiles (>10 tiles/m2) pressed at the same time. These are the main characteristics of...

Since the beginning of the year, Nuovo Corso, one of the industry’s leading players based in Carpineti, ­Reggio Emilia, Italy, has been equipped with...

According to the German Solar Industry Association (BSW), more than 80% solar power – both photovoltaic and solar thermal power – is generated on roof...

Ziegel Zentrum Süd e.V., Munich, organized with 35 students from Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and Constance University of Applied ­Sciences...

Intersolar Europe 2011 drew to a close with new records set for both exhibitor and visitor numbers. This year, 2 286 companies exhibited and presented...

Ceramitec 2009 was affected by the global financial and economic crisis, which also badly hit the heavy clay industry and its suppliers. Now the...

For the generation of solar power, Nelskamp has come up with an aesthetic alternative: the new “MS 5 PVM” photovoltaic system blends harmoniously into...

Now that Germany‘s nuclear phase-out is on its way, renewable energies have gained broad public consensus. In macroeconomic terms, solar and wind...

Engineers at the Röben roof tile factory in Brüggen have come up with a special docking tile for in-roof solar energy systems on tile roofs, where the...

Under the name “Tegolasolare” (earth and sun), the company supplies a patented building-integrated photovoltaic system. According to the manufacturer,...

Equipceramic has designed and installed a new multi-wire bevel cutter ensuring four-face uniformity at Ceramica Millas, Toledo, Spain. The length of...

Gas pressure regulating systems and thermoprocessing equipment as well as gas networks are not only subject to changes in standards. The technical...

A clay stockpile is constructed with the aims of opening up the raw materials, to keep clays available near production in critical times of the year...