At the turn of this year, Peter Schmidt took the reins of the palletizing and packaging technology division at Beumer Group in Beckum. As division head, 48 year-old Schmidt now steers and coordinates...
The Schönlind plant of Ziegelei Merkl OHG (Vilseck-Schönlind) is becoming part of Leipfinger-Bader (Vatersdorf/Puttenhausen) with immediate effect. The company owners have agreed on this....
Tondach Gleinstätten AG is starting the construction season 2014 with changes in its top management. Following more than 50 successful years, Franz Olbrich, long-serving director at Tondach...
Issue 03/2014Interview with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Schäffer, Professor of General Ceramics and CeramicBuilding Materials at the WesterWaldCampus in Höhr-Grenzhausen
You have worked in the field for many years, last at Monier where you headed the “Technical Center Clay”, with central research and development in the group. How important is fieldwork in student...
A graduate in engineering, Laurenz Averbeck, born 1957, began his professional career in the project department at the machinery and equipment supplier Keller HCW in Laggenbeck. After many years as...
In 2014, Andil, the Italian tile and brick association, is organizing the TBE annual meeting parallel to its own general assembly. The annual meetings fall at an important juncture as Italy will be...
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From now on, producers of construction materials will be able to provide declarations of performance via a website instead of in printed form as in the past. As to be expected, the...
more patents: see German part
1. A tile stacking apparatus
2. Glaze
3. Ceramic mass for production of facing tiles
4. Ceramic mixture for making facing tile
5. Brick glaze
6. Mortar...