Issue 04/2014

In Medina Sidonia, near Cádiz, in the south of Spain, a former slaughterhouse was converted into a professional cooking school. New clay roof tiles...

While in the company’s early years in the 1950s and 1960s, Capaccioli mainly manufactured automation systems and dryers, today the company produces an...

Back in 2010, Keller HCW, based in Ibbenbüren-Laggenbeck, Germany, joined with its French parent company Legris Industries in launching their...

Laminados de Barro S.A. (Labasa), a leading manufacturer of clay roofing tiles and other ceramic products, recently completed an extensive...

In 2013 Direxa Engineering installed a modern brick plant for the Incerpaz Group in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. “Ceramica Estructural” is the...

With the contract for the extensive revamping of a brickworks awarded by Arth Ceramics (formerly Red Ceramics Ltd.), Cleia, the French plant...

2014 started full of promising prospects for the Brazilian building sector, and this positive feeling has become stronger with time. The Federal...

The 10th anniversary of the Professors‘ Conference organized by Ziegel Zentrum Süd e.V. will take place at Munich University of Technology at the end...

Around 1000 participants attended the series of seminars arranged by Ziegelwerke

With around 2 500 attendees, this year’s Wienerberger Masonry Days conference reported a successful

In this project, brick not only serves a decorative purpose, but it is determinative for the whole building structure – a fact I consider particularly...

Manfred Weimer, head of Product Management at Schlagmann Poroton, has gone into

Dr Hans Georg Leuck has been reelected as Chairman of the DGfM (German Masonry Construction Association) in

Continuing its policy focused on offering innovative products that enhance productivity and profitability of its customers, Morte is launching its...

Part 1 of this contribution dealt with diffusion-dependent reactions in the heating-up zone at ≤ 500° C (Zi Brick and Tile Industry International...

On account of their different crystal structures, the primary clay minerals kaolinite, illite and montmorillonite exhibit different material...

This contribution addresses the correlations between the physical properties of structural ceramics and their effects on the frost resistance of such...

Following its investment in the soft mud press with Hubert system, which had been optimized by De Boer, in 2012, the Netherlands-based brick...