Issue 07/2009

For the construction of the new Kastanienburg Kindergarten in the German town of Landshut, the building owner and planner purposely opted for pored...

With the opening of their newly modernized clinker brick plant in Bannberscheid in February 2009, Röben Tonbau­stoffe GmbH established itself as a...

When the 34-year-old Alois Berchtold married the widow of a brickworks owner in Wertingen in 1884 and started making plain tiles, nobody could have...

On 18 December 2008 the opening of the modern facing brickworks OAO “Kirovo-Tschepezki Kirpitschny Zawod“ took place in Kirovo-Tschepezk, the second...

In its new plant for facing bricks and façade tiles at ­Illescas, south of Madrid, the Spanish brick manufacturer Cerámicas Mora relies on a new type...

This is the subject of a research project that is just now coming to completion at IZF, the German Brick and Tile Research Institute in Essen....

This year there is a double baton exchange at the Fachverband der Ziegelindustrie Nord e.V. (Brick and Tile Industry Association North Regd.)....

At the beginning of March Karl-Heinz Florenz, Member of the European Parliament (CDU), visited the old-established medium-sized enterprise Gebr....

Within the scope of the current exhibition "Varus and the Bricks and Tiles of Rome", which is running in Lage until the 20th September 2009, the LWL...

Representatives of the Wirtschaftsverband Baustoffe - Naturstein e.V. (registered industrial association for building materials - natural stone)...

The Hannover Messe 2009 has clearly demonstrated the determination of the industrial community to overcome the challenges at hand. Around 210 000...

The members of the Working Group Euro­pean Ceramic Technology Suppliers (ECTS) elected Charles-Antoine de Barbuat, CEO of Keyria S.A., Paris, as their...

The MosBuild 2009, which took place from 31 March to 3 April, featured 2 483 companies representing 45 countries. Exhibitors demonstrated their latest...

Alfons Hövelmeyer, from the Teutohang in Ibbenbüren, has now gone into well-earned retirement after 35 years of service for Keller, Laggenbeck. After...

From 19 to 22 August 2009, entrepreneurs from Brazil, South America and other parts of the world are expected in Belém, the capital city of the...

Following record figures for visitor attendance at the last event, the next Bau in 2011 will have a new subtitle: the World’s Leading Trade Fair for...

In December 2008 the European climate package was passed. With this package the EU would like to achieve two of the 20% targets agreed in March 2007:...