Issue 7-8/2011

The community centre built around a patio radiates monolithic calm on the outside and stands in refreshing contrast to the built environment with its...

The Province of Fujian located on the southeast coast of China is an important centre for the Chinese ceramics industry. Over the last few years, the...

Just one year after its start-up, Cleia has al­ready clin­ched a contract for the supply of a complete new brick factory in Touggourt, Algeria. The...

Röben is putting up new headquarters for their subsidiary Triangle Brick in Durham, North Carolina. The new administration building will also house a...

Installation of a new robot setting system has been successfully completed at Ziegelsysteme Michael Kellerer GmbH & Co. KG, a brickworks in...

Defying the global crisis, which has caused many companies to halt production either temporarily or completely, the Greek company Sabo S.A. expanded...

Capaccioli has delivered the second Aral 650/S extruder to Kilsan SA, Istanbul, one of Turkey’s leading brick producers, within the contractually...

The engineers of the company Freymatic were given the task of replacing an around two-year-old machine that had been supplied by a competitor to the...

Many technical inventions are long forgotten and outdated. Then there are important technical inventions where the basic idea survives for generations...

For several years now, there has been lively building activity in all sectors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Most remarkable is the continued rise of...

The year 2010 was marked by a generally ailing demand for products and services in the construction sector. The construction industry, which...

The “Building Ceramics Conference” organized on 19 April by the Dutch Ceramic Association VKO (Stichting Verenigde Keramische Organisaties) and SBR...

The 14th International Exhibition for Construction, Construction Machinery and Civil Engineering (Salon International du Bâtiment, des Matériaux de...

The economic upswing has now reached Germany brick people, too, if somewhat belatedly. Following the crisis of 2009 and last year‘s long, hard winter,...

On 1 May Hans van ­Wijck was able to look back on 25 years of working at the TCKI (Technical Centre Foundation for the Ceramic Industry) in the...

After a prolonged illness, though unexpectedly, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Harald Berger died on Sunday, the 10th of July, in Uhldingen, Germany. As a youth,...

Tecnargilla, one of the world’s leading trade fairs for the ceramics industry will be held in 2012, from 24 to 28 September in Rimini. At the trade...

There has been a rethink in Italy over the last four years. In the meantime 65% of those asked regard a lasting modernization as bringing the most...

Boasting a throughput rate exceeding 180 t/h, the 046-S double-shaft ­mixer has one of the largest capacities in the Talleres Felipe Verdés portfolio....

Elster Kromschröder is filling a gap in the series of Ecomax ceramic self recuperative burners produced by the LBE business segment. With the new...

Perfect surfaces, crack-free and intricate structures combined with the best possible economic production are the demands made of a modern ceramics...

Energy conservation, efficiency and lightweight construction are future-oriented topics with a close connection to the advent of highly refractory...