Issue 11/2010

With a radical restoration of the house where Martin Luther was born and the construction of two new buildings, Springer Architects have enabled an...

With its Vital Solar House in Eferding, Leitl wants to demonstrate the practicability of the solar-powered house concept in Austrian climate...

One of the first plants for grinding and filling ceramic blocks with mineral-fibre inserts ever to be installed within the Russian Federation was...

Over the last three months, representatives from the clay brick and roof tile industry met at their biggest sector events. Around the globe, they...

The 14th Consulting Session of the Clay Raw Materials Working Group of the German Trade Association for Mineral Building Materials Regd (UVMB) took...

The members of the Trade Association of the Building Materials Industry North West Regd and the Trade Association for Building Materials-Natural Stone...

At the invitation of Kurt Schumacher, general manager of Schumacher Ziegelei, the Swiss brick and tile plant managers‘ association (Schweizerischer...

From 24 to 27 August, the 39th National Meeting of the Brazilian Red Ceramic Industry organized by Anicer, the National Association of the Ceramic...

2009 will go down as a dark year in the economic annals! The crash of the financial markets and the global economic crisis in the aftermath have hit...

On 18 July 2010, Dr Lutz Krakow was awarded the title of “European Geologist”. Besides an academic education, relevant professional experience is a...

Schlagmann Poroton is complementing its clay brick chimney systems and widening its range of brick-built single-flue chimneys with a chimney with...

The Siemens Industry Automation Division has enhanced the Profinet functionality of its Simatic S7-300 and S7-400 controllers with Shared Device,...

The tried-and-tested Elster Kromschröder valVario family is growing. Its latest members are the magnetic relief valves from the VAN series. The field...

Händle engineered the Nova II in the year 2000 at the behest of roof tile producer Nibra Dachkeramik. One of their engineers, Dipl.-Ing. Manfred...

To stay competitive, a company must keep its systems and equipment in good repair and make timely replacements as necessary. Many companies, though,...

Just a year after the last Ceramitec, Tecnargilla was held in Rimini. The percentage of foreign visitors has increased steeply, but many exhibitors...