The new church was completed in March and consecrated in April 2022. The church is a new landmark in the Agder region.The facades are finished with a cladding tile that has been specially developed...
Rotho is the winner of the international bauma Innovation Award 2025 in the Climate Protection category.The competition is a joint project between bauma and renowned industry associations.On the eve...
Energy savings of up to 50 per cent and effortless maintenance: the KDW clinker roof tile factory has been benefiting from this since it started using a COBRA screw vacuum pump from Busch Vacuum...
With effect from 22 April 2025, the Stephan Schmidt Group has acquired Saarfeldspatwerke H. Huppert GmbH & Co KG, a long-established raw materials company based in Saarland, Germany. This acquisition...
Dear readers,Some of you will be travelling a lot in the coming weeks. The European association Tiles and Bricks Europe will be meeting in Budapest on 5-6 June and the Federal Association of the...
At the moment, the British brick industry is busy exploring the use of hydrogen for decarbonising brick production, as is the British ceramics industry as a whole. Their trade association, Ceramics...
According to a press release from 12 March 2025, Wienerberger UK & Ireland is the latest company to sign a deal with The Pallet LOOP, the circular economy pallet reuse scheme for the construction...
For die manufacturer ZMB Braun in Friedrichshafen, Germany, a subsidiary of Händle GmbH in Mühlacker, the year 2024 was anything but ordinary. In March, the company had to file for insolvency....
With Tristan Klein and Kai Rudhof, a proven success duo is returning to Hörl & Hartmann. The two materials technology engineers have a long history together: they specialised in heavy clay ceramics...
With his departure as Managing Director of Röben Tonbaustoffe GmbH and joining Grothe Rohstoffe GmbH & Co. KG, Ralf Borrmann also stepped down as Chairman of the Roof Tile (DZ) and Facing Brick &...
SummaryCurrent guiding strategies and environment policy goals are increasingly demanding the introduction of material cycles from the producers of mineral construction products. From the perspective...
Brief presentation of the “Green Cracked Gas” projectIn the research project “Green cracked gas for clay brick production”, the production of CO2-free masonry bricks with the use of “green cracked...
The Technical College for Ceramic Technology and Ceramic Design in Höhr-Grenzhausen offers the possibility of further vocational training with the qualification „State-certified Technician...
The ongoing revision of the Ceramics Best Available Techniques Reference Document (CER BREF) under the EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) represents a defining moment for the European ceramic...
