Issue 6/2015

I n a prime location between Rotterdam city centre and Crooswijk Park, in the restructured district of Nieuw Crooswijk, a multifunctional urban...

S ince 1972, the Polish company Zakłady Płytek Ceramicznych Przysucha S.A., a manufacturer of ceramic products made of natural materials, has been producing high-quality end-products. “For a much-needed expansion of our production...

B ernd Münstermann GmbH & Co. KG is currently realizing a challenging project with a high degree of automation for RHI AG, that is a setting and...

In 1993, a strategic alliance between the two Spanish companies Refractarios Campo S.L. and Forgestal S.L. was agreed. This was founded on a personal and business relationship started in...

S ince 2012, Marcheluzzo Impianti has been working intensively on an investment project in Brazil and has set up a locally based company Bonfanti-Marcheluzzo in order to break into the market with equipment made in Brazil using...

I ndustrial designers are often faced with the question: How to improve a product without impairing the quality characteristics responsible for its success? ...

I n June 2015, Ceratec successfully delivered a brand new brick plant for ArgiZas in Bordj-Bou-Arreridj (Algeria), a region well known for its clay deposits and numerous...

Equipceramic, S.A., the Spanish plant engineering company, is consolidating its international expansion with the successful commissioning of a fully...

Now for the second time, Lingl exhibited at Ceramics China in Guangzhou from 1 to 4 June 2015. This fair is considered to be the biggest fair for...

This year’s Clemson Brick Forum will be held from 5 to 7 October in ­Anderson, South Carolina. The Forum will start with a seminar on raw materials...

Talleres Felipe Verdés S.A., the Spanish clay preparation and shaping machine engineering specialist, has not only relaunched various models, but also introduced a new line on the market with the Optima roller mill. ...

The economic outlook at the start of 2014 appeared hopeful, but the situation deteriorated over the course of the year. During the second trimester...

Under this motto, this year’s annual meeting of Andil, Associazione Nazionale Industriali del Laterizio, was held on 16/17 June in Milan, where the...

From 2 to 4 March 2016, India’s two ceramics-centred trade fairs, Indian Ceramics and Ceramics Asia, will be staged concurrently at Gujarat...

1 Context The alkaline-earth carbonates calcite (CaCO ₃ ) and dolomite (CaMg(CO ₃ ) ₂ ) are contained in heavy clay raw materials. Clays intended...

1 Objective Decomposition and transformation reactions taking place at temperatures between 500 and 800° C (900° C) provoke a loss of strength in...

Siemens is integrating its Sitop UPS1600 DC UPS with Ethernet/Profinet interface into the Simatic PCS 7 process control system. The energy storage...

T h e Sirius 3SK2 safety relay from Siemens offers multiple safety functions in the smallest of spaces. Thanks to the user-friendly drag & drop...

This article reports on the findings of the recently concluded European research project Silicoat. With a coating of the silica particles in the production process, the hazardous risk of this material was to be reduced and the employees in ceramic production ...

A number of veteran methods for evaluating the suitability of raw materials, including the Winkler diagram, the Augustinik diagram and material...

This article is devoted to explaining what future brickworks could look like. The main objective will be to maximize energy efficiency while coping...