Dipl.-Ing. Anett Fischer
Braun can do more than just put “your ideas into shape”!
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»1 Aerial photo of the Braun company site – here...
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»2 The entrance to the company headquarters in...
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»3 Markus Rank, Managing Director Horst Rank and...
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»4 View into the production hall
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»5 The Heller MCP-H 250 is used to cut the cores
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»6 At Braun, a large number of different cores are...
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»7 Braun manufactures highly complex dies for...
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»8 In contract manufacturing, a wide range of...
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»9 A selection of the dies so far supplied by...
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»10 …and the products made with these
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»11 State-of-art technologies are used for design,...
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»12 In the Braun laboratory, various extruders are...
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»13 The MRG5 die cleaning device for efficient...
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»14 At the Clemson Forum, Berthold Mueller, ZMB...
For over 80 years now, the company Ziegelmundstückbau Braun GmbH has been involved in the supply of shaping equipment to the ceramics industry. The know-how built up over these years forms the broad basis for competent customer consultation, service and innovation. Braun – a brand name known throughout the world for clay shaping – can do much more than “just” make dies. We report on the diverse range of possibilities offered by this family business based in the Lake Constance district of Germany.
1 Past and present
In 1926 machine fitter Josef Braun, who had amassed extensive experience as a works manager in several brickworks, founded the company Ziegelmundstückbau Braun in Friedrichshafen-Kluftern. Despite severe setbacks caused by the Second World War, Josef Braun rebuilt the business after the war. In 1964, his grandson Horst Rank joined the company and has managed it since then. In 1972 the company moved from Bahnhofstrasse in Kluftern to its current site on Markdorfer Strasse. This enabled Braun to expand extensively, which was reflected in a steady increase in the workforce. The...
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