The Benedictine Abbey in Lorsch, not far from Worms in South Hesse, Germany, was dissolved as a monastery back in 1557 and recognized as a World Heritage site in 1991.A competition to enhance the...
In the beautiful and amazing country of Colombia, fired clay in all its forms is the dominant material for wall construction. With horizontally perforated hollow blocks, partition blocks, hourdis and ...
On 21 August 2017, Vandersanden signed an agreement with Wim Heylen and Matthieu van den Berg, the founders of Joseph Bricks, to add Joseph Bricks to its family of Belgian companies. The Vandersanden ...
In 2016, Ibstock, the UK-based brick manufacturer, contracted Sabo with the modernization of the packaging line at its South Holmwood facility.The scope of the project was the replacement of the ...
On the occasion of this year‘s summer festival, Schlagmann Poroton unveiled its fourth perlite filling line for highly insulative Poroton blocks at the main plant in Zeilarn, Bavaria.Made necessary by ...
Refratechnik Ceramics GmbH (formerly Burton) has been focussing on energy-saving refractory solutions for a long time. The global and economic situation facing each company increasingly requires a cut ...
Sacmi Heavy Clay has recently supplied two innovative combustion systems to a facility owned by BMT Briqueterie El Mostakbel, Tunisia. These new systems are designed to achieve considerable energy ...
As of 1 September 2017, Wienerberger AG took over the Reetz clay block plant from Röben Klinkerwerke GmbH in Germany.“For us, increasing our production capacities for high-quality clay blocks filled ...
Refratechnik Ceramics GmbH (formerly Burton), Germany, and HK-Ceram Kft., Hungary, are two of the world’s leading companies for the design, development and manufacture of refractory products for the ...
In 2016, Erlus AG realized sales proceeds totalling approx. € 106.3 mill (after € 110.1 mill. in 2015). For the fifth year in a row, the number of employees at the Erlus locations in Neufahrn and...
This year, we are visiting Feldhaus Klinker on our student field trip. For the fourth time in succession, we from the trade journal Zi Brick and Tile Industry International are organizing this ...
At the general meeting of Andil, the Italian brick association, on 7 July in Rome, the focus was on earthquake protection and reconstruction with clay bricks in Central Italy. Innovative products for ...
On 22 June, in Nice, within the framework of the Annual Congress of Tiles and Bricks Europe (TBE), the Mid-Term Conference of Life Herotile was held, during which the partners of this project ...
The total production volume increased by 7 %, especially thanks to a high-performing housing construction sector. Alongside new builds (+12 %), maintenance and renovation did extremely well (+25 %). ...
On 26 May 2017, the successful entrepreneur Werner Keller passed away at the age of 92 years.Werner Keller was born in Ibbenbüren-Laggenbeck in 1924. After the war he studied political economics at...
Boasting 11 000 m2, Indian Ceramics and Ceramics Asia 2017 were as big as never before. After several successful events at the Gujarat University Exhibition Hall in Ahmedabad, with steadily growing...
This contribution is the last of a series of articles dealing with kiln settings in terms of pressure drop, flow distribution, convective heat transfer and optimal configuration, as well as with the ...
A first step towards improving the sustainability of building materials is to understand the extent and source of the environmental and socio-economic impacts. It was with this intention that the Clay ...
For many different forms of industrial testing, a digital microscope offers advantages over conventional stereoscopic or light-optical microscopes. This applies in particular to the inspection of ...
At this year’s TBE Congress, which was held from 22 to 23 June in Nice, France, Miroslaw Jaroszewicz was elected as the new TBE President. The Congress jointly organized by the French Federation of ...
