Issue 1-2/2013

With its flush-faced jointing pattern and completely planar masonry in sanguine colours extending from light, sandy hues to burley browns,...

Bedeschi S.p.A., the Italian supplier of equipment to the clay brick industry founded back in 1908, is set to further strengthen its presence on the...

The recent supply of extrusion equipment to the Argentine companies Cerámica Santiago (Santiago del Estero), Cerámica del Norte (Salta), Palmar Mar...

Regular inspection and maintenance improves the reliability of production equipment. Indeed, some inspections, like those of gas burners, are even...

At its nearby Schirnding production site, the long-established, family-run company Ziegelwerk Waldsassen AG Hart Keramik, Waldsassen, is investing...

Having held the reins of ZMB Braun for more than forty years, Horst Rank is pleased to announce that his son, Christian Rank, has taken over as...

If the just-ended “Bau” trade fair in Munich is any indicator of the prospects for the construction industry in this new year, then we are in for a...

The austrian brick and roof award for contemporary architecture is to be presented now for the fourth time by Wienerberger Austria and Tondach...

With over 235 000 trade visitors, Bau, the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials, Systems, matched its record figures of 2011, and in...

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Cerame-Unie hosted the very first Ceramic Days from 26 to 28 November 2012. Numerous members from the European...

The Etex group of companies has built a new plant for the production of 30 mill. clay roofing tiles plus 2.4 mill. tile accessories per year near...

Wienerberger AG has realigned its corporate organization. Areas with similar market dynamics and growth drivers were combined into three divisions:...

On 17 December 2012, Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Brakemeier, Managing ­Director of Keratek, the Hohenhameln-based company, celebrated his 70th birthday....

Lambert Laumans, long-serving Managing Partner at Laumans Ziegelwerke, died following a serious illness on 9 January at the age of 71 years.

On 12 December 2012, OAO Popeda LSR, a member of the LSR group in St Petersburg, celebrated the start-up of a new backing brick plant. At the symbolic...

This article is more specifically meant to challenge the US brick industry in preparing for the future through a greater effort on innovation. But it...

Late last October, Ceric Technologies unveiled their ­latest innovation – the Pelerin Demeter 730 ER MRP 12–25 extruder. As the largest Demeter-series...

The following article shows how predictive maintenance can be practically implemented in a brick factory as part of an integrated maintenance