I should like to take this opportunity to remind you about our next Tiles & Bricks Europe (TBE) Annual Meeting, which is set to take place in Naples from 19 to 20 June. And in this connection, a big...
Bongioanni Stampi has developed Cleandy, an innovative set of automatic machines for cleaning extrusion dies, and launched it onto the market.
Cleandy is available in versions 2.0 and 2.1 for...
In Dornbirn Oberdorf, Austria, lavish villas from the golden age of Dornbirn’s textiles industry in the early 20th century are nested in park-like grounds with old trees. In past years, there has...
Clay bricks have a very convincing image as the most sustainable façade product. Wood is seen as the most sustainable product in Great Britain, but the same material has a contradictory image in...
With a future-oriented investment in its subsidiary OOO “Dubenski kirpitschny zavod” in the emerging economic region of Mordovia, the holding OAO “Mordovzement” has set another significant...
In 2013, Wienerberger AG increased its revenues to € 2.7 bill. and the operating EBITDA by 9% to € 266.5 mill.
Even through the bottom line showed a small loss of € 8 mill., a free cash...
1 Brief digression
The problem of respirable crystalline silica is not really one anymore! At least, this is the case in Germany and particularly in the German ceramics industry! The Employer’s...
In 2013, construction of around 270 400 dwellings was permitted in Germany. As Destatis, Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, reported, that was 12.9% or just under 30 900 dwellings more than...
The Czech Silicate Society is organizing two international conferences to be held in parallel sessions on 13–14 May 2014, they are Refra, the 18th Refractories Conference, and Hitherm Prague, the...
Uwe Pietz, managing director at HUP Verschleißschutz in Rot am See, is quite contented, because, as of February 2014, production is up and running at the company’s second location in the...
