1 Introduction
It has been a long journey from the first tiles, formed by hand and dried in the sun, to the industrial series production of roof tiles with modern preparation and production...
The 37th National Meeting of the Red Ceramic Industry in Brazil, held from the 17th to 20th September 2008 in Salvador (State of Bahia), has set a new milestone in the history of this sector. The...
At the international trade fair for architecture, materials and systems, the Bau 2009, 1 924 exhibitors from 42 countries presented their products on an area
of 180 000 m² (Bau 2007: 2 046...
Times are hard – and the German clay brick and tile industry is starting to feel it. Production is on the decline, and the prospects are not that rosy either.
For the production of back-ing and...
The six-year-long phase of exceptional growth in the German construction equipment and building materials machinery industry has come to an end. Orders in the period October to December 2008 fell by...
After the excellent results of 2007, when annual growth of 13.8% rang up
a record turnover of
1 937.5 million €, Italian manufacturers of machinery for the ceramics industry are facing a...
Erlus AG, a leading manufacturer of roofing and chimney construction materials, premièred its new large-size roofing tile E 58 Plus at Bau 2009. As the largest pantile in the Erlus range, it features...
Despite the crisis last year, the Unipor independent companies coped comparatively well on the market. Their overall sales fell by 1.1% to € 94.2 mill. In their core business of masonry bricks, they...
The world economic situation is tense, and only cautious economic prognoses are being made right now. But selecting the right human resources takes on a special significance for enterprises in...
Residential construction
After around 250 000 completed dwellings in 2006, the figures for 2007 still registered about 210 000 completions; in 2008 the figure will probably be only a round 195 000....
