Issue 03/2013

The extroverted building deviates from the usual peri-­urban building typology in India, of a multi-storey apartment stack consisting of simple...

This year too, the Keller Division will be exhibiting at numerous trade fairs in Germany and abroad. It will start off at Mosbuild in Moscow, from 2...

The upswing in ­Germany‘s residential construction sector is having a positive impact on the current business figures at Unipor-Ziegel-Gruppe: The...

Energy is now the primary focus of the research efforts made by Ceric Technologies with the aim of developing new technologies for the clay brick and...

Clay pavers are making a solid comeback as a preferred paving material, both for small and large projects. And not just because of the attractive...

Germany’s Energy Saving Ordinance (EnEV) 2014 is taking increasingly concrete shape: the revised draft bill was recently approved by Germany’s Federal...

Hopes of a speedy recovery for the European construction industry have been dashed. In several of the 19 Euroconstruct countries the euro crisis is...

In January 2013 Jochen Nippel (Ph.D,) took over as CEO at Keller (Keller HCW GmbH and Morando srl), a division of Legris Industries Group. Before...

On 1 March 2013, Rüdiger Sattler, Board Chairman of the Brick and Tile Research Institute (IZF) in ­Essen, turned 65 years

Dr. Markus Blumenberg, long-serving and since retired General Secretary of the German Ceramics Society (DKG) and the Research Foundation of the German...

Due to substantial increases in the cost of fossil-fuel energy and to the necessity of reducing CO2 emissions, cost-cutting measures and alternative...

This article is more specifically meant to challenge the US brick industry in preparing for the future through a greater effort on innovation. But it...

This contribution provides information on major methods of characterizing the frost resistance of ceramic building materials. Testing is performed...

TPM is not about the maintenance and production departments alone; it is about the organization as a whole. The successful introduction of TPM...

1 Geological background and site At Taben-Rodt Quarry, Lower Devonian hard rock is extracted and processed to high-grade chippings, track ballast and...