Issue 06/2013

The Federal Association of the German Brick and Tile ­Industry Regd is extending invitations to this year’s annual meeting in the over 1 000-year-old...

Ibstock, one of the UK’s leading clay brick manufacturers, recently installed a new stretch hooding machine at its Ellistown plant to replace its...

The Swiss company ­Pilatus Maschinenbau AG has developed a roller turning machine with a special length of two metres for the Sko-Energo power plant...

Monier Braas GmbH supplies one-stop material resources for gently pitched roofs. Everything from concrete/clay roof tiles to roofing system...

Clay roofing tiles are a traditional building material valued for their durability, elegance, versatility, universality and beauty. For the clay...

North Crescent Investment, a company in the important Jordan-based Sinokrot Group, has decided to diversify its business by investing in the clay...

The family-owned Schumacher Brickworks, Körb-lingen, has been producing a wide selection of high-quality bricks for six generations. The...

These two concepts can be used to summarize the current discussion about association reorganization. Solidarity implies that the future challenges for...

All the steep-pitched roofs on privately owned homes and multi-family dwellings that were replaced or rehabilitated by modernizers in Germany in 2011...

On 18 April Erik Kjær died. In March 2012 he celebrated his 40th anniversary at the Danish Technological Institute, Masonry and Building Components....

On 25/26 June, the Czech Silicate Society is staging “Hitherm Prague 2013”, the international conference on high-temperature processes. Key themes...

Until recently, adhesive bonding was the only way to make a façade look all-ceramic. U-bricks by CRH Clay Solutions, though, are masoned in the...

This contribution provides a brief overview of how European product and design standards are evolving with regard to clay masonry bricks – beginning...

For almost 30 years now, Keratek has supplied engineering services for the clay brick and roofing tile industry. In recent years, it has established...

The management teams at numerous middle-market companies need a new mindset, because tomorrow’s young key players are bringing along a new set of...

With rising prices for energy and an increasing portion of costs for drying and firing as the most energy-intensive process steps, measures for saving...

In the history of industrial heat transfer technology, there was a time before and a time after the Casing kiln. This kiln has often been imitated,...