Wienerberger reports its final half-year results for 2021, which are the Group’s strongest mid-year results in its history. In the first half of 2021, the Group achieved record revenues of € 1,867.5...
Hörl+Hartmann, a brick company based in Dachau, has taken over Ziegelwerk Schmid GmbH & Co (Bönnigheim). Ziegelwerk Schmid, a family-owned brickworks since 1602, is the oldest owner-run brick plant in...
For interior construction, Lehmorange offers prefabricated clay building boards that, according to the manufacturer, ensure a comfortable indoor climate all year round. They are suitable for use...
Expert know-how for the construction site: with its new installation app, the Unipor Group provides practical tips for building brick houses, according to a news release from Unipor. Diagrams, photos...
With effect from 1 July 2021, Ziegelwerke Leipfinger-Bader, a brick company based in Vatersdorf, Lower Bavaria, has taken over Lehmorange, a company in Störnstein. With this deal, Leipfinger-Bader is...
Ziegelwerk Bellenberg is presenting a new clay masonry block. Thanks to an array of technical advantages, the MZ60 can be used to meet all “Efficiency House” standards in future, according to a press...
With effect from 1 January 2022, Goerg & Schneider GmbH & Co. KG will take over operational responsibility for the Langweiden plant of the company Alois Weiss GmbH & Co. Tonbergbau KG in...
“My compliments, that looks good,” wrote JUWÖ Operations Manager Heiko Paselt on 4 April 2008 in an email to Karl-Heinz Brakemeier, Keratek’s founder and managing director at the time. A few days...
In 1995, with the introduction of Germany’s 3rd Thermal Insulation Ordinance (WschV), clay blocks reached the limits of their capability with regard to their thermal insulation properties. The...
In the fall of 2019 beginning of 2020 Meridian brick asked Sabo S.A. to visit their plant in Elgin Texas and propose solutions for the renovation of their kiln. The kiln, a casing kiln which was made...
A study by the Research Institute for Thermal Insulation (FIW) Munich and the Institute for Technical Building Equipment (ITG) Dresden, commissioned by Deutsche Poroton, investigated the influence of...
At the beginning of August, the Bavarian Minister of State for Housing, Construction and Transport, Kerstin Schreyer (MdL), gave the starting signal for the commissioning of the new photovoltaic plant...
The de Beijer Groep, the German-Dutch family-owned group, is celebrating its 65th company anniversary this year. De Beijer is one of the leading companies in the production, trade and transport of raw...
Raw materials are becoming scarce and expensive. The magic word is resource efficiency. Against this background, the utilization of secondary or waste-derived materials, appropriately tested for their...
Following the extension of the office building in 2017, a new warehouse is currently being constructed on the site of SKM Witte Löhmer GmbH in Wetter an der Ruhr. The added storage capacity will...
Bricks continue to have the largest market share of wall-forming building materials in residential construction in Germany. According to the Federal Statistical Office, at 30.3 percent, almost every...
The Clemson Brick Forum will meet for the 67th time this fall in Anderson, South Carolina near the Clemson University Campus located at the Anderson Civic Center. The meeting will begin on the...
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mauerwerks- und Wohnungsbau (DGfM – German Masonry and Housing Construction Association) invited Mechthild Heil, chairwoman of the German parliament’s Committee on...
LGA Würzburg, the Federal Association of the German Brick and Tile Industry (BVZI) and the Association of the Bavarian Brick and Tile Industry have taken the concerted decision to cancel this year’s...
Following the restart at Lingl, the management team around investor Hubert Schug is committed to dependability, continuity and innovations in the digital sector. The entrepreneurial family Schug from...
2020 should have been a promising year with good growth prospects for the construction sector in Belgium. However, a Coronavirus changed the world at the beginning of 2020 and also had an impact on...
The Italian ceramic and brick machinery and equipment manufacturers reported a 53.9 % increase in turnover in the first six months of 2021 compared to the first half of 2020, when the industry was hit...
Since July 1, 2021, Daniela Bender has been strengthening the German Poroton Association in the areas of sustainability and environmental protection.To the main points of her new position will belong...
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eric Brehm is the new Chairman of the German Masonry Committee. He is supported by Dieter Heller (Secretary General of the Federal German Association of Lightweight Concrete) and...
For those regions of Germany with a high earthquake risk, since the introduction of the DIN 4149 standard in 2005, proof of structural stability of buildings in the event of earthquakes must be...
The raw material enthalpy dHR has a significant influence on the energetic balance of tunnel kilns in the heavy clay ceramics industry and can make up to 30 % of the total energy consumption of a kiln...
On initial inspection, the narrow plot of land appeared particularly uninspiring – located as it is between the existing buildings of the Shri Sharda English Medium School, an electrical substation,...
