An exceptional school calls for a special refurbishment. The roof of the over 100-year-old École Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande has been re-covered with a new plain tile – while the school was still...
JuWö Poroton has invested € 9 mill. in renewing its production line for clay blocks at Zeller Poroton and started up one of the most modern installations in the world. The long-established plant in ...
Over the last two years, the US and UK markets have been particularly interesting for Sabo for developing and delivering new projects.The signs of recovery of the brick industry especially in US...
Beralmar, the Spanish plant engineering company, recently commissioned a new programming system for setting bricks on kiln cars for its customer Palautec.Palautec, based in Chiloeches, Guadalajara, is...
The new AP182 pallet labeller from Bluhm Systeme GmbH has been specially developed for labels in sizes up to 150 x 210 mm. It is therefore particularly suitable for pallet labelling on one, two or...
At the end of August 2020, Wienerberger GmbH took over Ammonit Keramik, a company with a wide range of brick slips made of fired clay as well as façade solutions, which offer unique attributes ...
The new plant of the private conglomerate Orient Holding Group, Uzbekistan, has a planned capacity of 1 200 t/day, with a wide product portfolio – from the local common bricks to large-size hollow ...
Erlus AG, one of Germany’s leading manufacturers of roofing ceramics and chimney systems in Germany, increased its annual turnover to € 110.5 mill. in the 2019 business year. That is € 5.5 mill. more...
Dear Readers, at the end of September, I shall be leaving Bauverlag and “my” trade journal Zi Brick and Tile International to take on a new professional challenge, which I am looking forward to very ...
The boards of the Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery Association took stock of the current status of the Covid-19 crisis during their annual meeting at the beginning of July: It ...
The Belgian construction industry came out of 2019 well with an increase of 2%. This put the brick industry on a similar level to 2018. In 2020, the construction industry got off to a very promising...
The Dutch building ceramics industry faces a challenging time of transition and innovation over the next decade. In the meantime, the industry also has to deal with the possibly negative impact of the...
One character held in esteem in the ceramics industry worldwide celebrated his 80th birthday on 8 September: Frank Händle. He headed the world-renowned Händle company for 30 years, during which he...
The two Business Units – Wienerberger Building Solutions and Wienerberger Piping Solutions – are each to have their own designated representatives on the Managing Board. The Supervisory Board has...
Following a long and successful career at Braas Monier and the BMI Group, Ulrich Siepe, Managing Director of the German BMI companies Braas, Icopal, Vedag and Wolfin Bautechnik as well as Braas...
Klaus Hoppe, who took a leading role at Wienerberger Deutschland from 1986 to 2009, stewarding and supporting Wienerberger AG’s international expansion with the takeover of the German company...
Defying all the bad news: BAU, one of the world’s leading trade fairs, is well on track, six months before the start of the trade fair. For BAU 2021, 80% of the available exhibition space, that is...
Out of concern for the health and safety of the members, the sponsors of and all visitors to the Forum as well as that of the staff, the Clemson Brick Forum will sadly not be held in its traditional...
Acimac, the Association of Italian Manufacturers of Machinery and Equipment for Ceramics, and the Italian trade fair organizer IEG have decided to postpone Tecnargilla to autumn 2021. Originally, the...
With a thermal conductivity λR of just 0.065 W/(mK) and a heat transfer coefficient (U value) up to 0.13 W/(m²K) depending on the wall thickness (36.5 to 49.0 cm), the new MZ65 counts as one of the...
Schlagmann Poroton is widening its portfolio with the addition of the newly developed “Poroton-T6.5”. The surface-ground vertically perforated clay block with integrated perlite insulation and a ...
In the Smartlink 2.0 release, Atlas Copco is making new functions available for all users of its remote monitoring system for compressed air equipment. The design of the graphic user interface is now...
For the optimists, Corona is already water under the bridge. If you believe the pessimists, the worst of the pandemic is still to come. But one thing is clear: the industrial economy as well as the ...
More and more companies are using modern information and communication technology to establish so-called blended learning concepts in their organization. This results in new demands on employees, who...
An in-line material moisture measurement system for continuous monitoring of drying progress has been developed, taking into account those material parameters dependent on the drying progress. In the...
The circular economy can be seen as a threat to industrial production. For: if building materials are to be recycled, will new materials have to be used at all? The article discusses how the future...
