In a gap in the fabric of Schwerin’s old town, the firm planstudio9 has built an unusual residential and commercial building. The sensitively integrated clinker brick building is replacing a one-floor...
Latermec is an Italian company which successfully operates in brick and ceramic industries for more than 30 years, offering regeneration and coating services on all of the components of the extrusion...
The brickworks Ziegel- und Klinkerwerke Janinhoff and Ringofenwerk Gillrath have been making “steamed facing bricks” with absolute clinker quality for more than 15 years, according to the two...
Dear ReadersIn the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we, that is the clay brick and roofing tile industry, have again proven ourselves to be an anchor of stability in Germany and Europe. In light...
Statement by Dr Matthias Frederichs, Secretary General of the Federal Association of the German Brick and Tile Industry, on the European Commission’s recently published draft on EU taxonomy.
After ceramitec having been cancelled twice because of Covid, the industry is at last meeting again in Munich. A talk with trade fair director Robert Schönberger on the relaunch of the in-person trade...
In November 2020, Germany’s Buildings Energy Act (GEG) came into effect with the aim of expediting the energy transition in the buildings sector. In an interview for Zi, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Holm...
The importance of BIM and the digital building process has grown in recent years. The picture of BIM is widening from a digital design and planning method to a digital tool for managing information...
The use of secondary resources is a current trend and gaining increasing acceptance. In the meantime, in clay brick and roofing tile plants, too. This report presents a contact-metamorphically...
Operators of all kind of kilns and furnaces are facing significant challenges due to constantly increasing fuel costs and by government pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is...
Drying is one of the most elementary processes in the manufacturing of ceramic products. With the removal of the water necessary for plastic shaping, the shaped product is transformed from a wet and...
Germany’s Climate Change Act specifies the stepwise reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent overall on their 1990 level by the target year 2030. In the long term, Germany’s...
For many years now, students on the post-HBO course at the TCKI (Technical Centre for the Ceramics Industry) have visited Stephan Schmidt KG in Langendernbach after having completed their course...
