In January 2013 Jochen Nippel (Ph.D,) took over as CEO at Keller (Keller HCW GmbH and Morando srl), a division of Legris Industries Group.
Before joining the Keller Division, Jochen Nippel first...
Clay pavers are making a solid comeback as a preferred paving material, both for small and large projects. And not just because of the attractive appearance of clay paving (»1). Nowadays, a major...
Energy is now the primary focus of the research efforts made by Ceric Technologies with the aim of developing new technologies for the clay brick and tile industry. These research activities cover...
1 Geological background and site
At Taben-Rodt Quarry, Lower Devonian hard rock is extracted and processed to high-grade chippings, track ballast and aggregates. The rock is loosened by means of...
1 Introduction
Total Productive Maintenance is a powerful tool to improve equipment and plant efficiency, reduce unit costs, increase output, and as a consequence increase profits. However, TPM is...
1 Introduction
For producers and users alike, frost damage on heavy clay products is a latent hazard that can be avoided by appropriately optimizing the product and the employed production technology....
3 A changing world
As we have seen with this rapid world tour, the fortunes of the clay product industry have been varied depending on each country and its specific parameters. But, the constant we...
Hopes of a speedy recovery for the European construction industry have been dashed.
In several of the 19 Euroconstruct countries the euro crisis is continuing to hold construction activity in check....
Germany’s Energy Saving Ordinance (EnEV) 2014 is taking increasingly concrete shape: the revised draft bill was recently approved by Germany’s Federal Cabinet and is therefore well on its way to...
The extroverted building deviates from the usual peri-urban building typology in India, of a multi-storey apartment stack consisting of simple cubical volumes with identical floor plans and a common...
