Guests can feel the cheerful atmosphere that surrounds the Balthasar Hospice for Children and Young Adults in Olpe near Cologne even in the car park. The surfacing of colourful clay pavers lies like a...
The Park Books publishing house has published a 208-page book about Zurich‘s brick architecture. It points out that about one thousand brick-faced buildings erected at the end of the 19th century...
Since 1991 Latermec has been operating in the Italian and international market. The area of specialization is given by the supply and regeneration of spare parts of the extruder and dies.Latermec’s...
Using the new raw material-neutral and resource-efficient upcycling firing process, Hagemeister responds to the growing requirements in the construction industry and makes an important environmental...
There are many reasons why an operating mass in a brick factory needs to be adjusted. At some point, even the largest clay deposit is exhausted or the properties of the clay in the pit have changed to...
Nowadays, 3D printing makes things possible that engineers and mechanical engineers only dared to dream about for a long time. In various fields of application and disciplines, the technology is...
Dear readersWhile I am writing these lines, tens of thousands of people are gathering in stadiums and public squares, scorning face masks and flouting distancing rules, while celebrating the big...
The next edition of Tecnargilla will be held in September 2022. Given the current international situation, the only way of ensuring the size, effectiveness and level of international participation is...
A new study conducted by the Forschungsinstitut für Wärmeschutz (FIW), a thermal insulation research institute based in Munich, has revealed: Up to 116 mill. tonnes CO2 can be saved In existing...
The Staudacher brickworks bid Anton Wiedemann farewell on his retirement at the end of April 2021. The owner Otto Staudacher thanked him for his many years of successful work. Since May 2021,...
The raw material enthalpy dHR has a significant influence on the energetic balance of tunnel kilns in the heavy clay ceramics industry and can make up to 30 % of the total energy consumption of a kiln...
In the work presented here, 20 vol.-% spherical, cuboid and cylindrical pore-formers were each added in a monoporosification to a typical clay used in the production of lightweight vertically...
The German clay brick and tile industry has defined sustainability as a key issue for the future and announced climate neutrality by 2050. As a consequence, high-carbon brick clays like marly clays...
In 1921, Adolf Gottfried started with the extraction of high-quality clay in Fonsau/Egerland in the Wildstein basin. In the time before the Second World War, Adolf Gottfried Tonwerke had evolved into...