Triangular, rust-red, historic: the public building in Barcelona cleverly combines today’s demands for monument protection and creative design. This public facility houses an adult education centre, a...
Knapp 30 Bauprojekte vereint das Buch „Moderne Einfamilienhäuser aus Backstein“. In ihren Unterschieden vereint: Ein Bungalow in der klaren Formensprache eines Mies van der Rohe inmitten der grünen...
Since 2020, Thermoplan GmbH has been repositioning itself, both with regard to its personnel and business focuses, as the company informs us. Its goal was to extend its established expertise and...
At the Wienerberger GmbH brick factory in Bad Neustadt, vacuum technology is used for degassing the clay mixture in the extrusion press. A vacuum system with a dry COBRA NX screw vacuum pump as the...
The globally active chemical company Zschimmer & Schwarz will be presenting its wide range of customised products and services for the ceramics industry at ceramitec 2022. In addition to process...
To qualify for consideration in the selection process, submissions must be independently completed scientific works or dissertations that address the properties and production of high-temperature...
At the beginning of 2022, Cleia finalized the commissioning of a first waste heat recovery facility in the heavy clay industry. The waste heat from the kiln at Terreal roof tile plant in Chagny/France...
In Driefontein, near Johannesburg, one of the largest brick plants in sub-Saharan Africa was put into operation at the end of last year and represents one of the most modern and energy-efficient brick...
Sabo has commissioned for Redblocsystems a new line for the construction of prefabricated wall elements in Büchenbeuren, Germany. The line is semiautomatic which means that the assembly of every...
A breath of fresh air in Randers Tegl‘s product portfolio: a total of five new brick varieties will be added to the range, according to a company statement. The Special Colours series will receive...
News from Switzerland: In January 2022, p+f Prüf- und Forschungsinstitut Sursee, a construction materials testing and research institute, was renamed p+f expert AG. The change in name and new logo...
Since 1996, the year in which the Czech company Aweld s.r.o. was founded, the company has specialized in manufacturing and regenerating wear parts, for example, augers, cylinder barrels or mixing...
Hagemeister’s brick seminar took place for the 17th time in 2022, as the company reports. After a two-year break caused by Covid, the advanced training event, which is recognized by the Chambers of...
One cause of the increasing CO2 emissions lies in the environment-impacting air conditioning of buildings with Air Conditioning Systems (ACS), the start-up EcoClima is convinced of this. According to...
Shorter building times and a high degree of planability, system reliability and energy efficiency: clay brick wall elements for masonry construction are now available from Fertigteile Bayern GmbH. The...
Under the title "Perspectives of a climate-neutral brick industry", the trade journal ZI Ziegelindustrie International is organising a series of lectures in cooperation with Messe München on the more...
In the past two years, travelling was restricted due to the pandemic. This prompted many people to put out their feelers outside their own front door. Instead of using planes, cars and trains, people...
The Bavarian-Swabian mechanical engineering company, Lingl Anlagenbau GmbH, was commissioned by the Dutch Wienerberger plant Kijfwaard West under the condition of an extremely short conversion and...
The mechanical workshops of the small medium industry have always been a driving force of the Italian economy. The mix of tradition and innovation characterizing the all-Italian approach to the...
Easymud, Capaccioli‘s fully automated production line for the forming of bricks, floor tile, roof tiles, brickslips and special pieces in soft mud, is a line production and a method patented by...
Following the Desford project, now in advanced construction phase, where Bedeschi supplied a fully integrated in-house solution, covering clay preparation, storage, extrusion, cutting, drying and...
Dear readers,After a two-year “dry spell”, at last it’s time again to meet up face-to-face and interact live and in technicolour. The last ceramitec took place four years back and, just a few weeks...
The Federal Association of the German Brick and Tile Industry (BVZi) has a new top management: since 1 May 2022, Attila Gerhäuser has been responsible for the BVZi’s general management. The...
Sound insulation has been verified in compliance with the regulations in the DIN 4109 series of standards since 2016. The Federal Association of the German Brick and Tile Industry is supporting...
On May 4, 2022, the Advisory Board of the Research Association of the Brick and Tile Industry (Forschungsgemeinschaft der Ziegelindustrie e. V.) met for its regular spring meeting at the...
The Brickworks Museum Hagendorn/Cham in Switzerland presents the exhibition Brick 20 until 23 October 2022, featuring outstanding brick architecture worldwide, as well as the installation Clinking...
Hartsteinwerke Sooneck GmbH have appointed Stephan Abraham as its new operations manager. In his new position, he will hold the technical and economic responsibility for the quarrying operations in...
Christian Bruch will become the new managing director of the German Society for Masonry and Housing Construction (DGfM) on 1 April 2023. The 50-year-old lawyer for construction and architectural law...
Since 1 May 2022, the siblings Freya and Johann Röben have been members of the management of Röben Tonbaustoffe GmbH, Zetel. “We want to do everything we can to ensure that Röben as a modern company...
This paper addresses the experimental investigation of the drying of green heavy clay products by means of microwave radiation on laboratory scale, with reference to the examples of facing bricks,...
The reduction of the energy consumption is an obligation for the whole tile and brick industry, now more than ever before. The reduction of the CO2 emissions has been a priority over the last years to...
The State Technical College of Ceramics in Höhr-Grenzhausen offers an opportunity for vocational further training leading to a qualification as State-Certified Ceramic Engineer, as the college has...
