Accelerated drying, easy maintenance, a wide variety of dried products and low energy consumption – these advantages of Ceric’s rapid dryer for perforated bricks have convinced a new client:...

Zi: In our last talk, you had targeted sales of € 20 mill. for 2010 and around € 40 mill. for 2012. Were you able to reach your goal for 2010 and does your planning for 2012 still hold?   P.H.:...

1 Introduction In the 1990s a group of Italian companies had built a ceramic and heavy clay multiproduct manufacturing plant, which included the production of sanitary appliances, one unit producing...

Zi: Mr Vandermaelen, is the plant already running at full ­capacity and to your satisfaction? D.V: On 1 June 2012 we pressed the first roofing tile and now, at the end of November, running at 50%...

1 Introduction The technique for the blue-reduction firing of clay roofing tiles and facing bricks evolved in Holland during the Baroque and Rococo eras and travelled from there to Germany, where it...