The building, which is a Unesco world heritage site, has been extensively restored and extended with a new building to create a museum. Basis for the...
At this year’s Tecnargilla, Cleia showcased its new highly profitable plant concepts “Platinum Roof Tile Plant” and “Brick Plant 4.0”. The trade fair...
On 6 August, Rustam Minnikhanov, President of Tatarstan; Ildar Khalikov, Prime Minister; Irek Faizullin, Minister of Construction, and Carlos Gorchs,...
Clay construction product manufacturer Schmid in Bönnigheim is starting up its first filling plant for Coriso clay masonry units. In procuring their...
Under that motto, plant and equipment contractor Händle GmbH Maschinen und Anlagenbau hosted a three-day house fête to celebrate the dedication of the...
Goerg & Schneider, located in Siershahn/Westerwald, one of the leaders in the extraction and preparation of clays, chamottes and ceramic bodies, has commissioned a new chamotte tunnel kiln at the plant just in time for the company‘s 90th founding anniversary. That makes this multi-stage investment project “Optimization of the production process and of chamotte firing technology” the biggest investment the company ever launched. In addition to the continued production of conventional raw chamotte for structural ceramic bodies, the new kiln enables firing at temperatures up to 1350° C and, hence, the production of high-sintered silicate
the 53rd Würzburg Brick and Tile Training Course is fast approaching. As Course Director, I am delighted to meet with the programme committee at the...
On 8 October members of the Research Association of the Ceramic Plant Engineering Companies Essen (FoKA) gathered for their annual meeting, this year...
According to a report from Tecnargilla, the leading international trade fair for technologies for the whitewares and clay brick and tile industry held...
The Austrian Association of Brickmakers, Linz, has been working for over 90 years to represent the technical interests of clay bricks with regard to...
Normally, natural gas is the energy source of choice for firing bricks and tiles. Due, however, to the high-volume cost of all the energy required for...
All regular-market measuring systems determine the water content of a given medium by indirect means, i.e., by exploiting a certain physical effect....
To drastically reduce the energy requirement for firing, Keller HCW is closely examining the principle of the countertravel kiln. Known research and...
If the tunnel kiln is simplified as a countercurrent heat exchanger, it can be mathematically shown that the enhancement of the heat transfer between...
1 Geological background and site At the Henneberg quarry near Heberndorf, Thuringia, Lower Carboniferous granite is extracted and processed to obtain...
Climate policy 2030: German and European Perspectives The energy policy framework up to 2030 is currently being discussed in Europe. The proposal for...
As part of its 7th framework programme, the EU is funding a project called INSYSME, in which 16 partners from six countries (Portugal, Italy, Germany,...
As already reported at the 2012/2013 Würzburg Brick and Tile Training Courses, this EU co-sponsored project is geared to reducing the workplace hazard...
Building with clay brick has changed starkly over the last few decades. Driven by ever higher requirements for heat insulation, since the 1970s there...
With reference to an up-to-date clay potential map of Germany, key deposits of geologically consolidated clays are presented. On the basis of specific...
The 2014 Würzburg Brick and Tile Training Course, which will take place from 2 to 4 December, is devoted to all facets of clay brick manufacture and...
