In the Danish town of Ishoj, around 20 kilometres south-west of Copenhagen, an unusual residential estate has been completed. The complex designed by the two Copenhagen firms ONV Arkitekter and JAJA...
In summer 2017, Keramika Burgas, one of the biggest brick producers in Bulgaria, contracted Sabo S.A. with the modernization of its brick plant.The modernization involved the cutting line, the dryer ...
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a production indicator conceived by the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance for assessing the value creation of a given facility. It shows at a glance how ...
The extensive modernization project at Schönlind brickworks was completed with an official start-up ceremony on the 10th of May.Some 150 invited guests from the realms of politics, business and ...
For the fourth time, the Forum Rohstoffe (Raw Materials Forum) in Austria invited its members to develop innovative solutions and projects on the topic of sustainability. These beacon projects were ...
With effect from 1 July 2019, Managing Partners Gerhard Albert and Patrick Schneider have sold their remaining 49.9% stake in Ströher GmbH to STO SE & Co. KGaA, based in Stühlingen.What started as...
Most companies use systems to record working hours.However, employees in sales, field service or, for example, assembly cannot use these stationary systems. They often record their working times on...
Tecnofiliere, the Italian die supplier, is supplying Sarl Briqueterie Guerrouache, one of the leading Algerian brick manufacturers. The order is for the supply of dies of the model TFE-J EVO for the...
On 4 March, at the headquarters of Forgestal SL in Esparraguera, Spain, the company management held a ceremony in honour of Horst Heffter. The long-standing Forgestal representative was honoured for...
Craven Fawcett has become the UK distributor for Teide Refractory Solutions, a Spanish-based leading supplier of refractory materials to the global ceramics industry.Teide has developed a...
The increasing demand for energy-efficient vertical-coring lightweight bricks, also in France and in the Benelux countries, induced Wienerberger AG to widen its product portfolio with new thermal ...
The European brick and roof tiles industry will convene in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 12 to 13 September 2019 for the Tiles & Bricks Europe (TBE) Congress 2019. Danske Tegl, the Danish Brick and Roof ...
On March 20, 2019, IAB – Weimar Institute of Applied Construction Research opened the doors of their new pilot plant for construction material recycling to some 100 industry experts. The new plant is...
For the third year in a row now, the German brick and tile industry is seeing increases in the production of facing bricks and clay pavers.The facing brick volume expanded by 5% in 2018, while clay...
That is one of Rehart’s four corporate values that no doubt led to the machine engineering company being voted into third place in the Zi Service Supplier Award at ceramitec 2018. Klaus Schülein and ...
At the Institut für Ziegelforschung Essen e.V. (IZF – Brick and Tile Research Institute), changes have been made in the management structure as of 1 March 2019. Annette Ilg-Muhlack, who had previously...
EECFA (Eastern European Construction Forecasting Association) has released its “Winter Construction Forecast Reports 2018” based on research on the construction markets of eight Eastern European...
Leaders have to adapt their leadership style both to the as-found situation and to those they wish to lead. That thesis was developed by Paul Hersey, who helped invent the Situational Leadership...
Refractories are the key for the development of new energy efficient thermal processes. Existing deficiencies in their high-temperature characterization are closed by a new generation of ThermoOptical...
Who was this man who was unpopular with his employees, who delighted in arguing with the whole world, but who was held in such high esteem by his colleagues? August Dannenberg was more than a...
