Issue 4/2011

An urban space with access to the water and a view of the River Elbe – this is how Benedetta Tagliabue from EMBT Architects in Barcelona designed the...

In the Rhein-Sieg District near Bonn is the Niederpleis clay pit, situated directly next to the A 3/A 560 motorway junction. Clays have been won here...

In 2010, in cooperation with Rieter Werke, Keller HCW supplied two production lines for manufacturing large-sized terra cotta floor tiles to customers...

Even after more than a dozen years in service, the first few machines are still showing hardly any wear on their floor chains, despite the heavy...

In November 2010, Keller HCW GmbH opened its new subsidiary OOO “Keller Vostok” in Moscow. Keller HCW is therefore in a position to handle plant...

Each year in Germany, some 15 million tons of fine particles from gravel washing plants are collected mainly in huge tailings ponds. Across Central...

At Gravenhorst Monastery in Ibbenbüren, the ABC-Klinkergruppe held its fourth ABC-Conference for Architects on 16

Johannes Edmüller, Managing Partner of Schlagmann Poroton, welcomed around 500 architects, structural engineers and masonry product users to the 14th...

Just under 500 architects learned about the wide range of possibilities for structured design with clinker bricks at Hagemeister‘s Clinker Brick

Around 900 managers, owners and master craftsmen from the roofing and building materials trade attended the 1st Braas Roofing Congress in Potsdam,...

In 2010 the German construction equipment and building material machinery industry saw 13-% growth in turnover to € 10.6 bill. Of this total, the...

In 2010, Ceric Systeme and Ceric Automation merged to form a new enterprise under the name Cleia. Operating out of Nolay, some 250 km south of Paris,...

With Guido Siewers, Gebr. Laumans GmbH & Co. KG has a new sales

With its “Turbo II Modular Block Finishing Centre”, Lingl has developed an innovative grinding machine, suitable for step-by-step adaptation,...

While preparation and shaping account for less than 5% of the overall energy consumption of a typical brick­yard, their share of the plant‘s electric...

The Körbligen brick factory, now headed in its 6th generation by present proprietor Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Kurt Schumacher, celebrated its 150th year in...