Issue 1/2016

As a large-scale urban figure, the new residential building in the “Maaghof City West” area in Zurich echoes the commercially grown structures of its...

Whenever contaminated trucks from construction sites, mines, harbours, landfills, dumpsites or industrial areas drive out directly onto the public...

Simatic Migration Services enable companies to migrate to the latest Simatic technologies. This makes their legacy automation systems future-proof,...

Operators of conveyor systems need to keep their belts as clean as possible. That is because carryback can be a significant cost factor. Very good...

Verdes Clay & Minerals Equipment Pvt. was established in 2011 as a fully owned subsidiary of Talleres Felipe Verdés. Its offices and workshop were built the following year in Hosur, near Bangalore. At the same time a team of executives and ...

The Dutch phrase “ceramic wallpaper” has existed for several decades. This expresses that a wall also has an aesthetic function in addition to its purely structural ...

Cleia, the French plant ­ engineering company has received the following orders from Algeria and France ...

The Unipor Ziegel Group is now supplying slab edge elements as part of a system solution ...

With the second-highest terrorist alert being called in Brussels in early December, it was surprising, but at the same time gratifying that over 120 attendees came to the ...

Over the past few years, Zi Brick and Tile Industry International has taken an in-depth look at the use of mineral waste in the composition of clay brick and tile bodies. In 2016, together with Dr Lutz Krakow, we are starting a new series of articles on clay ...

Repairing components only after a fault has occurred – that was yesterday. Today, sensor technology and IT enable predictive maintenance of production machines. ...

bauma 2016, which is taking place in Munich from 11 to 17 April 2016, will occupy all 605 000 m2 of space at the Munich trade fair centre. The upcoming fair features a new service: for the ...

This year once again, Tecnargilla will be a must for all those in the ceramic and brick sector. For 2016, event organizers Rimini Fiera and Acimac are working hard to increase the already ...

At ceramitec, Refratechnik Ceramics presented an innovative “base frame” for roofing tile firing. When tiles are fired in H-setters, breakage often...

In many processes, individual steps involve the presence of bulk solids as the primary, intermediate or end product, and the individual particles can...

For the second time now, the trade journal Zi Brick and Tile Industry International arranged a field trip for students. On 2/3 November 2015, more than 30 undergraduate and graduate students along with their supervisors learned about the theory and ...

In practically all brick and tile-making plants, large volumes of air have to be handled, but the processes in question are only analysed and appraised at the time of commissioning, not in ...