Mein Ziegelhaus (My Brick House), the alliance comprising six manufacturers of clay masonry bricks and blocks, has been in existence for around twelve...
T he Belgian brick manufacturer, the Vandersanden Group, is acquiring from CRH three brickworks in the Netherlands and one in Germany. In the Netherlands, these are the Bylandt Tolkamer plant (pavers) ...
With effect from 1 January 2017, Juwö Poroton-Werke Ernst Jungk u. Sohn GmbH, Wöllstein (Rhineland-Palatinate) has acquired Adolf Zeller GmbH & Co. Poroton Ziegelwerke KG, Alzenau (Bavaria). ...
The Capaccioli Group, a world leading supplier of machinery and integrated plants for the heavy clay industry, is exhibiting at Stand 022, Hall B at this year’s Indian Ceramics, which is taking place ...
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The 2016 Ceramic Days were held in Brussels, Belgium, from 29 November to 1 December. The objective of the Ceramic Days was to understand how labour...
The previous Euroconstruct conference was held a few days before the referendum in the UK, so the Barcelona conference in November 2016 has provided the first opportunity to assess the repercussions on the European construction ...
Following a lean period lasting several years, the construction industry in the Netherlands has picked up so sharply that a shortage of bricklayers is...
Almost ten years after the real estate crisis in the USA, which grew into a global banking and financial crisis, confidence in North America‘s brick...
The Sacmi Board of Directors appointed Claudio Marani as new General Manager of the Sacmi Group on 11 October 2016. Claudio Marani started his career at Sacmi in 1981 and since then he has held various positions. He began as project manager in North Africa, then as area manager for various countries, including the USA, Turkey and all of Eastern Europe. ...
Hans-Joachim Giesselink, Burton Sales Manager of long standing, died on November 8, 2016. Born in 1942, he became a pillar of the branch and known the...
The Braas Monier Building Group has appointed Georg Harrasser (50), currently Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Braas Monier, as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He succeeds Pierre-Marie De Leener, who has held the CEO position on an interim basis since January 2016 and will henceforth focus on his role as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Braas Monier. ...
Together with Münster University of Applied Sciences, an energy brick has been developed that, in addition to the existing photovoltaic and geothermal...
With the new generation of “Unipor Silvacor” clay blocks, the Unipor Group is presenting a sustainable building material solution that also improves...
With its new safety ridge system, Braas presented an innovative solution for the installation of a safety fixture under the roof covering. By means of...
The mortar pad launched at Bau 2015 is now available for interior walls: Besides the sizes 42 x 30, 36 x 24 and 19.5 x 36 cm for exterior walls, the...
The “MZ3 New” flat roof tile from Grossengottern will be introduced in optimized form from the first quarter of 2017. Key feature of the clay roofing...
For the first time ever, 80 000 of the more than 250 000 visitors who attended Bau 2017 were from abroad. As a result, Bau, the World‘s Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials and Systems, managed once again to make significant gains at the international level (2015: 72 000 visitors). ...
