The use of renewably generated hydrogen instead of natural gas is regarded as an important element contributing to the transformation of the clay brick and tile industry to CO2-free production. In...

At the end of October last year, ZI editor Victor Kapr met with the new presidents of the European association Tiles and Bricks Europe (TBE) elected in June 2023 at the Bellenberg Wiest brickworks in...

At Ceramitec 2024 in Munich, ROTHO, the established supplier to brickworks, presented a newly designed drying rack for soft-mud bricks for the first time: the new PrO Horde. The most important aim of...

The Federal Association of the German Brick and Tile Industry (BVZi) is once again organising the German Brick Award. From 2 April to 31 July 2024, architecture and planning offices can submit their...

Higher quality, less maintenance and lower costs – two standard vacuum systems from Busch Vacuum Solutions prove that everything is possible at the Hermsdorf porcelain factory in Thuringia. There,...

At Germany‘s largest clinker brick plant, Röben’s plants 2 and 4 near Bad Zwischenahn (Querenstede), the company has used the time of major corona-related restrictions to make production more...

In the brick industry, hydrogen is considered a key energy to achieve the legal requirements for climate neutrality in 2045.Hagemeister is already working together with the Institut für...