Helmut Klaas dead

Helmut Klaas, former building consultant of the Brick and Tile Industry Association Northwest Regd, died.

Issue 4/2016 Dipl.-Ing. Anett Fischer

Inspiring annual meeting for brick and tile manufacturers in Rome

Rome - worth seeing Following their arrival on Thursday, the group started out on a first informative city tour across Rome in wonderful weather. Having gained intense impressions of the city, in the...

Issue 02/2022

Turn of the times

Dear Readers, Anyone who thought that war spurred by power-hungry maniacs were a thing of the past, has been proven sadly mistaken these past few weeks. The Russian ruler and the kleptocrats...

Issue 09/2013

News from Lingl

SARL BCB concludes a contract with Lingl The Algerian brick manufacturer SARL BCB, based in Tidjelabine, Wilaya de Boumerdes, signed a contract with Lingl on 13 May, shortly after the successful...

Issue 2/2017 Dipl.-Kfm. Stefan Jungk, Owner and Managing Director of Juwö Poroton-Werke, Wöllstein, Germany

If you have problem, solve it and then get on and solve the next one

What was your goal in taking over Adolf Zeller Poroton Ziegelwerke KG in Alzenau, Bavaria? Weve been working together with Zeller for many years. We were both clay block manufacturers from the...

Issue 04/2013

The hidden perils of glazing building ceramics

1 Problem description In the late 1990s, an incident was reported in the roofing tile industry in which a large number of around one- to two-year-old glazed roofing tiles had become discoloured, as...

ZI 5-6/2010