The international port was the beating heart of Bremen’s economy for more than 100 years – until the end of port operations in the 1990s. Instead, the Überseestadt district, one of the biggest harbour...
Nexe Group, a well-known brick and roofing tiles manufacturer with plants in Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, is continuing its collaboration with the Italian company Bedeschi. The decades-long ...
Wienerberger has acquired Vesterled and Helligsø, two brick producers with a long-standing tradition in the Nordic countries operating highly efficient production sites in Denmark. Moreover ...
As part of a market development programme, Trend Industrial Ceramics Co. Ltd. has recently begun cooperating with Refratechnik Ceramics, the German company that was established in 2013 with the...
The internationally operating family business Vandersanden Group has acquired its Northern Germany industry partner Ziegelwerk Blomesche Wildnis.Jean-Pierre Wuytack, CEO of the Vandersanden Group,...
On September 20, 2019, some 180 construction contractors and building material suppliers converged in Warburg-Bonenburg to celebrate Lücking’s 120th company anniversary. The event started off with...
The Mladost Group, a major producer of construction materials in Serbia, is continuing its collaboration with Bedeschi S.p.A. Mladost’s wide range of products includes roofing tiles and large-size...
Arno Witgert has been mining clay since 1820, making it one of the oldest clay mining companies still in operation in the Westerwald region. In recent decades, emphasis has centred on processing...
Pallet logistics is becoming increasingly important in many industrial sectors, especially in the building materials industry. Increasing requirements on building sites, resource efficiency, load...
In this issue, we have again brought together some exciting topics from the brick and tile industry.We inform you about a research project in which multi-curved brick shells are constructed from flat ...
Together with Deppe Backstein-Keramik GmbH, Steenfelder Betonwerk, Johann Meinders GmbH and Ripkens Wiesenkämper Beratende Ingenieure PartGmbB, a team of researchers has developed a process that ...
The Dutch facing brick performed well in 2018. Sales on the domestic market managed to turn around (+ 6%) and exports grew strongly (+ 19%). This means that the sales of bricks are approaching the...
At the age of just 57 years, Dr. Markus Schiessl, BMI Group, died suddenly and unexpectedly in the night from 7 to 8 October 2019.Dr. Markus Schiessl had been with the company for more than 25 years,...
In 2020 bricks will be fired for the first time at the Open-Air Museum Ballenberg in the large shaft kiln of the tilery from Péry BE, dating from 1762 – a unique experiment in Europe. The firing will...
The Quaternary ice age is subdivided by cyclic climatic fluctuations reflected in long glacial periods and shorter interglacial periods. The climate has significantly controlled sedimentation, the...
More than 30 years ago, the first digital printing systems were available for use in the graphic arts industry. In ceramics, the first digital printing system was put into operation in a tile factory...
Spanish one-stop supplier Beralmar produces a full-range of gas-fuelled firing equipment for the heavy clay industry. Beralmar also specializes in the use of biomass as fuel, particularly for drying...
This year, the TBE Annual Congress took place from 12 to 13 September in Copenhagen, Denmark. Danske Tegl, the Danish Tile and Brick Association, had worked together with TBE to organize an...
For building approvals for high-precision vertically perforated bricks, structural strength tests on individual bricks and specimen walls are essential. For high-precision vertically perforated bricks...
At the 55th Würzburg Brick and Tile Training Course 2017, Keramikinstitut Meissen presented a test for the weather resistance of roofing tile glazes and engobes (leaching test). For the test, boiling...
You get used to recurring faults, e.g. underpressure, in compressed air systems. The actual energy requirement is not really tangible in comparison to the physical optimum, and manufacturers and...
For complex plants it is hard to design a text-based operating system in a clear structure. In the talk, a new software option is presented, which extends the proven Lingl machine operating system...
It is the year 2050. Greenhouse emissions have been reduced by more than 80% in Germany. CO2 trading has long ceased in the building ceramics industry. The thermal processes, especially firing, are...
Keller HCW develops and implements individual robotic solutions for various industrial applications. The focus is on functional solutions for the heavy clay industry. Back in the mid-1990s, Keller...
The brick and tile industry is obliged to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 32% by 2025, as compared to 2005 levels.Kilns and dryers, though, are already very efficient, and the remaining latitude...
In process terms, modern tunnel kilns in the brick and tile industry involve two coupled subprocesses that take place in succession.The first of these consists of a preheating process to maturing...
Non-destructive moisture measurement systems work from the surface to determine moisture content. As a result, the water content of near-sensor layers has the strongest influence on the delivered...
This talk addresses the opportunities and challenges with regard to commissioning a digital printing system in the heavy clay ceramics industry. In addition to essential introductory information on...
For some years now, the demand for varied, individual surfaces has been growing in building ceramics, too. To obtain shiny metallic effects on ceramic surfaces, so-called lustre glazes can be used....
With a view to the requirements for floors and supports according to DIN 10453, DIN 4045 and DIN 18530, the basic idea evolved for a brick with two different perforation patterns. A floor does not...
Sampling, beginning with proper documentation of the requisite data and selection of the appropriate means and standards, often evolves into a laborious and, frequently enough, expensive part of the...
The extraction of mineral raw materials is accompanied by considerable intervention in nature and the landscape. In the scope of licensing processes, mine operators have to explain how damage can be...
Our society is in the process of bringing about a change in its values. Climate change and, in concrete terms, energy and resource efficiency as well as recycling are taking centre stage. In respect...
Organizations have to contend with diverse sources of error, any of which may have catastrophic impacts under an adverse set of conditions. If such errors are to be recognized and their causes...
The objective of a research project was to sustainably ensure high-grade recycling of demolished masonry, and especially the clay brick contained in it, so as to return this to brick production where...
Executives such as managers, managing directors or board members are responsible for employer and operator obligations being met in companies and at production sites (e.g. § 52 b BImSchG – Germany’s...
In the exploration of clay deposits, we are always faced with the same questions, particularly with regard to the proper extraction process and to the type and number of exploration drillings –...
At the Brick and Tile Research Institute in Essen, a numerical and two-dimensional simulation model was developed on the basis of the DIN EN ISO 10140 series of standards. The objective was to analyse...
This year, the whole of Germany, if not the whole world, is celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Bauhaus. This is a good reason to examine the legacy of Bauhaus architecture more...
The Würzburg Brick and Tile Training Course is taking place from 3 to 5 December 2019, for the second time at Kolping-Akademie, Kolpingplatz 1, in Würzburg. The programme covers everything about clay...
