The sight of the around 70-m-wide façade of the newbuild for the Association of the Northwest German Textiles and Clothing Industry gives the impression of the new office building being swathed in...
The company Marcheluzzo Ceramics, partner of Marcheluzzo Impianti, manufacturer and supplier of equipment and turnkey plants for the ceramic sanitaryware industry and dryers for the heavy clay sector,...
On 14 August 2017, the new “Red Guard” brick plant was inaugurated in the Belgorod region. It manufactures clay bricks with the help of state-of-the-art technology.The ceremonial inauguration of the...
Sabo S.A. is regarded as one of the pioneers of the heavy clay industry and can look back on a 35-year success story as a supplier of turnkey solutions for this industry. Following in this tradition,...
ContiTech has strategically reorganized its conveyor belt business to focus more on its industrial applications business in the future. For this purpose, the conveyor belt specialist has created the...
With an investment worth over one million euros, Ziegelwerk Klosterbeuren has modernized the wet side of production in its Brick Plant II. The plant control system has also been revamped to optimize...
Service is becoming an increasingly important aspect. Time is money, and plants must keep producing rather than stand idle waiting for a replacement part.Many plants no longer maintain extensive ...
The 2017 Fritz Höger Awards for Excellence in Brick Architecture were conferred at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) in Berlin on October 6, 2017.The winning entries to this year‘s competition were ...
Defying terrorist attacks and growing uncertainty with regard to future economic development in other countries, the Belgian economy developed well in 2016. According to calculations by the ICN...
Between April 10 and 13, 2018 the leading international trade fair for the ceramics industry – ceramitec – and the leading event for laboratory technology, analysis and the biotechnology sector – ...
At the Bau 2017 in Munich, Franken Maxit introduced a lightweight mineral repair mortar called “maxit therm 825”. Offering both high strength and thermal insulation, this mineral repair mortar is an...
1 Context
Adobe building products have very good moisture-regulating properties, enormous heat storage capacity and excellent ecological and economic properties (resource-efficient, reusable, low ...
At the Danish Technological Institute (DTI), a project is currently underway to develop microwave-assisted gas firing (MAGF) in the clay brick and tile industry. A MAGF chamber kiln has recently been...
1 Background
The vibration cutting technique employing an oscillating solenoid, as already investigated in project AiF 16074 N, enables achievement of a cleaner quality of cut coupled in most cases ...
At brickworks, the medium “process air” transports large amounts of energy. Only in rare cases, however, are the airflow volumes and energy quantities continuously monitored. With a “Luftmeister” air...
Thanks to inkjet printing, surfaces can be individually designed. Not only in the ceramic tile industry, but in the clay roofing tile industry too, this process enables wide-ranging design with...
This contribution is the last of four articles dealing with kiln settings in terms of pressure drop, flow distribution, convective heat transfer and optimal configuration, as well as with the boundary...
A coating for adobe bricks developed in a research project makes them more resistant to contact with liquid water. Produced according to the sol-gel process, the coating effectively precludes contact...
Clay minerals are regarded on account of, amongst other things, their high reactivity to changes in their milieu as some of the most peculiar phenomena of our inorganic world. This is related to the...
This presentation traces the evolution of decorating techniques from manual application to series production in the heavy clay sector, with particular emphasis on cladding tiles. Over the years, the...
This lecture explains the summer heat protection verification methods prescribed by DIN 4108-2:2013-02. Specifically, this refers to the solar transmittance analysis method and, alternatively, to the...
Digitalization is causing lots of change in the working world. Under the heading “Industry 4.0“, industrial production is rapidly becoming intensively interlinked with modern information and...
Vacuum is a major component in the processing of ceramic bodies. Particularly in mixers and extruders, vacuum technology enables degasification of clay compounds, hence precluding air inclusions at...
Quality criteria for clay roofing tiles are becoming increasingly strict, and the subject of energy conservation in the brick and tile industry is becoming ever more important. The best way to satisfy...
Decoupling the kiln/dryer heat cycle by means of an upstream or downstream kiln tunnel is an inexpensive way to optimize the energy efficiency of a clay products plant. This not only improves its...
Gas microturbines have proven themselves dependable as combined heat and power generators in the brick and tile industry. Thanks to their technological specifics, they optimally cover a diverse range...
Today‘s tunnel kilns handle relatively large volumes of air and exhaust. Low exit losses are achieved at the cost of high cooling-air volumes that have to be drawn out of the tunnel kiln and dried...
Finally, after 25 years of revision, the latest edition (July 2016) of DIN 4109 – Sound Insulation in Buildings – Standards Series, is now fully in line with the state of the art in terms of...
Keller HCW has been building need-appropriate grinding machines for fired common bricks for many years now.As the diversity of format and applications has expanded, so have the qualitative and...
In recent years, the subject of irregular natural gas compositions and the effects of such irregularities on end users in private households, the trades, industry and power generation has become...
Digitalization is dramatically altering our economy and society. Everything is becoming more dynamic, volatile and different at an enormous pace.Progress and new developments, particularly in the...
The new dust limits require a different type of dedusting, which is discussed in the paper. Addressed are extraction points, the effect on the in-house climate and the air balance. The right choice...
In this process, an existing structure is replicated, in that an open-pored, organic body, termed the template, is infiltrated with ceramic slurry and excess slurry is then removed by squeezing or...
To improve the thermal insulating properties of wall-building materials, thermally insulating materials are introduced into the existing chambers. The currently preferred filling materials for...
Since the liberalization of the electricity and gas markets within the European Union, the pricing mechanisms for the energy sources electricity and gas have changed substantially. Whereas for natural...
For some years now, it has been established in the clay brick and tile industry that asynchrony between kiln and dryer operation leads to energy losses of 10 to 30 %. The possibility of balancing out...
Drying green products is easily the most energy-intensive process step in clay brick and tile production. For the purpose of process control, it is interesting to know the distribution of moisture in...
This talk addresses the current limits for dust in workplace health and safety regulations. In particular, the new “A” dust limit of 1.25 mg/m3 and the conditions that must be met to qualify for the...
In the firing of heavy clay ceramics, the reductive process of transforming Fe2O3 into Fe3O4 can be used to generate numerous different colours, i.e., to obtain a very variegated interplay of colours. ...
The Würzburg Brick and Tile Training Course, which will take place from 5 to 7 December 2017, is devoted to all facets of clay brick manufacture and application. Registrations can be made online as of ...
