The French company Cleia presented its new solutions for modern, enhanced and more sustainable production units at Tecnargilla 2016. At the same time,...
Röben Managing Director Wilhelm-Renke Röben has expressed great satisfaction with the past business year (1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016). Highlight of...
Equipceramic, S.A. has supplied the Hermanos Diaz Redondo Group with high-capacity precision equipment to enlarge the dehacking line currently installed ...
Sacmi Heavy Clay has won yet another strategically important order on the Tunisian market and this time it is all about process automation. Ideal Brique, one of the leading brick manufacturers in Tunisia, has purchased a fully automated plant ...
Under this motto, Vitreus GmbH, a company established in 2014, develops and produces engobes, glazes and granulates. The company, based in Seevetal, in ...
Not long now and the German brick and tile industry’s “bazaar” – the Würzburg Brick and Tile Training Course 2016 – will be opening its doors again. Our course is taking place for the 55th time, without interruption. For me as course director, it is always exciting to fill the days of the next course with an interesting programme. The programme committee meets in spring and ...
The Dream project, supported by the EU programme Horizon 2020 for Research and Innovation, started with a kick-off meeting in Brussels, which was attended by eleven representatives of the European ceramics industry and ceramic research ...
An important step in preventing material losses on conveyor belts is correcting the guidance of the conveyor belt. To achieve this, Flexco Europe GmbH...
Misalignment of the conveyor belt is a frequent cause of material loss in conveyor systems. Belt centring stations can detect this and correct it. The...
Argillaceous rocks from the lithostratigraphic group of the Buntsandstein are some of the most important raw materials in German clay brick and tile...
As usual, the North American clay brick and roofing tile manufacturers met with their suppliers, including international companies, at the Anderson (SC) Sports and Entertainment Center at the beginning of October. Against the background of a slow ...
Following reprivatization of the brickworks in 1990, Ziegelwerk Nordhausen has developed from an “industrial monument worth preserving” to a modern production base. The 16 employees produce around 40 mill. NF standard-size clay bricks ...
In the past, some glazed roofing tiles have exhibited damage that only became visible after a certain period of time. Moreover, not all tiles in one...
For firing high-thermal-insulation clay blocks, the raw materials must meet certain preconditions and the firing process fulfil certain requirements....
Thanks to inkjet printing, it is possible to individually design surfaces. With this process, a wide variety of design in optimum quality is not only...
Resource efficiency is something that most of us already perfected as schoolchildren, trainees or students: the MiniMax system. The goal is to get the...
The tasks involved in material preparation are becoming increasingly complex and any errors made at the beginning of the overall process are difficult...
Recording and documenting the condition of large and difficult-to-access roof areas and masonry façades is very expensive in terms of time, logistics,...
The new TIA portal from Siemens will replace the Siemens hardware (S5/S7) and software in the medium term. Finding the right time for the switchover...
The Würzburg Brick and Tile Training Course, which will take place from 6 to 8 December 2016, is devoted to all facets of clay brick manufacture and...
In this talk, a solution devised by Petersen/De Boer for the direct wet production of brick slips will be explained. With this solution, material loss...
As always, there is quite a lot. Amongst other things, there will be a report on developments in the drafting of CO2 emission trading in Phase IV from...
Industry 4.0 interlinks production with state-of-the-art information and communication technology. Evolutionary development of machine software based...
For several years now, a new surveying method has been on the rise – UAV surveying. With the help of drones, photos are captured, which in a complex...
The Palaeozoic comprises the geological systems Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian: it began around 541 million years...
ZMB Braun GmbH, Friedrichshafen, will present the cost-efficient handling of dies. In this talk, the current accessory machines, the changing of the...
In recent months, triggered by a report on the German TV channel ARD, there has been uncertainty in some backing brick plants on account of the use of...
