Fjordenhus (Fjord House), the first building designed entirely by artist Olafur Eliasson and the architectural team at Studio Olafur Eliasson, opened on 9 June 2018 in Vejle, Denmark. Commissioned by...
Brick manufacturer Vandersanden is introducing BrickDrive in its factory in Spouwen. The digital pick-up and delivery system increases the efficiency, speed and safety of the loading process and...
Wienerberger has published its final results for the first half of 2022. According to these results, the Wienerberger Group recorded a significant 38 percent increase in consolidated revenues to...
This is how Giovanni Savorani, chairman of Confindustria Ceramica, assesses the situation on the Italian ceramics market. Unfortunately, with a view to the entire European brick industry, one can only...
The move had already been announced for just under a year - then the Bavarian state government put its money where its mouth is. Since June 1, 2022 and until December 31, 2023, a new guideline for the...
Wienerberger Deutschland GmbH has acquired Mayr Dachkeramik GmbH in Lower Bavaria, effective July 1, 2022. According to the press release, the clay construction specialist intends to expand its...
Many projects are still being cancelled in German residential construction, according to a statement by the ifo Institute. The share of affected companies was 11.5 percent in July 2022, after 12.3...
The restrictions that have accompanied the Corona pandemic have also affected the regular event and course formats of the German brick industry. It is therefore good news that, according to the...
Bricks were again the most popular choice for the construction of residential buildings in Germany in 2021. This is shown by data from the Federal Statistical Office on completions in residential...
Dachziegelwerke Nelskamp, manufacturer of roof tiles and accessories, has stopped the production of clay roof tiles as of 1 September 2022. According to a company statement, the stop of the...
The brick industry in Belgium was able to significantly expand production volumes in 2021 despite difficult market conditions. According to a report by the Belgian brick association, Belgische...
Craven Fawcett, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of clay preparation and extrusion machinery and part of Group Rhodes, has won a major new contract to supply the first net zero carbon emissions...
Michelmersh Brick Holdings, one of UK’s largest producers of bricks and tiles, aims at producing the world’s first 100 percent hydrogen fired clay bricks. The company has announced its successful bid...
Often, old heavy clay plants have the potential to be profitable investments by improving and upgrading the existing machinery in order to be able to produce more valulable products for the market in...
The Association of Czech Brick and Tile Manufacturers, Cihlárský svaz Cech a Moravy (Association of brick and tile producers in Boehmia and Moravy) asked four members for their market assessment. We...
Carthago Brique, a branch of the Poulina Group dedicated to the manufacture of heavy clay products, decided once again to reinforce its position in the heavy clay sector and Equipceramic was newly...
At its annual general meeting, the Initiative Bauen mit Backstein decided to give its competition for outstanding brick architecture a new name. The decision was made on the basis of a new, specially...
The year 2021 was a strong year for the Dutch brick and tile industry. This is shown by the annual report of the Dutch trade association Koninklijke Nederlandse Bouwkeramiek (KNB), which was published...
The Italian Brick and Tile industry shares the problems of the whole ceramics industry in the country. Regarding production and sales figures, 2021 proved to be a solid, in certain sectors even an...
The French brick and tile sector recovered well in 2021 from the impact of the Corona pandemic on production and the market. However, the first problems in the gas and electricity markets were already...
In Wellard, Western Australia, Fastbrick Robotics Limited (FBR), an Australian robotics company, has used a robot to construct a building using Wienerberger Porotherm bricks. According to FBR, two...
AbstractThis paper deals with the spatially resolved, distributed temperature measurement during microwave-assisted firing of green bodies using fibre-optic sensing. The temperature profiles...
