The City of Vienna chose a solar roof tile for a heritage-listed residential building.Absolute impermeability and preservation of the cityscape coupled with maximum energy efficiency: such were the...
Keller grinding technology is a product segment in which the plant and machine engineering company based in Ibbenbüren, Germany, is constantly further developing its portfolio and facing the challenges of the market. The targets and needs of the customers are ...
Brickworks North America Corporation (Brickworks N.A.), the parent company of Glen-Gery Corporation, has acquired Sioux City Brick, an Iowa-based brick manufacturer. Sioux City Brick will become a ...
Effective July 1, Hörl & Hartmann Ziegeltechnik GmbH & Co. KG has acquired a total 50% share of Ziegelwerk Ott brickworks in Deisendorf. The holding owners, Dipl.-Ing. Tristan Klein and Dipl.-Ing. Kai ...
Sabo S.A., the Greek manufacturer of turnkey plants and machinery for the heavy clay industry, has commissioned a new high-capacity robotic setting machine for Meridian Brick in Henderson, Texas, USA....
At its Altenmünster site, Beck+Heun has invested in a robot-controlled, digitalized and largely automated production line for ROKA-LITH brick shutter boxes. Thanks to the good order situation,...
With its investment into a state-of-the-art, high-performance tunnel kiln set to go into operation in the second quarter of 2020, the Steuler Group is creating new jobs and increasing production...
Beralmar, the Spanish plant engineering company, has realized optimization projects at two plants owned by the Nexe Group. With a total of eleven tunnel kilns in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia, the Nexe...
TÜV Nord has certified perlite-insulated Poroton-T7, Poroton-S8 and Poroton-S9 clay blocks from Schlagmann Poroton as “climate neutral bricks”. That distinction is based on both the reduction and...
The 2019 Clemson Brick Forum will mark the 65th meeting of the Brick Industry, hosted by the National Brick Research Center (NBRC) at Clemson University. This year the meeting will be on October 1st ...
After five years of growth culminating in the record results achieved in 2017, the total revenues generated by the Italian manufacturers of machinery and equipment for the ceramic and heavy clay ...
In der Gartenstadt Werdersee, einem der umfangreichsten Bauprojekte Bremens, verfolgen die Bauträger PGW (Projektgesellschaft Gartenstadt Werdersee) und GEWOBA ein ganzheitliches...
2018 will go down as a good year for the Belgian heavy clay industry. The construction industry in general was the engine driving the Belgian economy. In Belgium, significantly more construction ...
As of 1 June 2019, Giulio Mengoli has been the new General Manager of the Sacmi Group.The 49-year-old Mengoli spent five years with General Electric and 15 years in the top management levels of Tetra...
The international trade fair for suppliers to the ceramic and heavy clay industries will be held in Rimini, Italy, from 28 September to 2 October 2020. The 2018 event was attended by a total of 34693 ...
This year’s Clemson Brick Forum is taking place from 1 to 2 October, to be held again at the Anderson Civic Center in Anderson, S.C. Hosted by the National Brick Research Center (NBRC), the Forum...
A numerical model for determining the sound transmission of vertical-core bricks is described. The effects of different material parameters on the numerically calculated sound insulation of a...
To be successful in the medium and long term, companies need a strategy. In management theory there are many approaches to as well as several schools (of thought) on developing a strategy. It is...
Currently in occupational safety, mainly lagging indicators are used, such as LTIFR (Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate), which means measuring something negative, namely the absence of safety. These...
The use of advanced analytics is now common practice in many industries. Tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook have built their business model on intelligent algorithms to make smarter,...
In 2019, Wienerberger is celebrating its 200th anniversary. Over the years, the company has developed from a brickworks in Vienna to a globally operating manufacturer of construction materials...
