Having installed and commissioned a state-of-the-art plant for the Wienerberger Group at Durtal (France), Marcheluzzo Impianti was contracted by the Wienerberger Group to modernize its plant in...
Since 1978, Franz Banke GmbH has been supplying to and partnering with the roof tile industry. From developing new tile models to designing and building pressing tools and moulds, it is one face to...
With its simple “Quick Check” the Green Building Switzerland Association has created a basis for estimating the suitability of a property for a substitute newbuild. This approach is presented for...
Etex Building Materials Polska, a well-established manufacturer of clay roofing tiles on the Polish market, is part of the Etex Group. Etex is reinforcing its position in Poland by investing in a...
Freymatic, the Swiss plant engineering company, has developed an innovative column-controlled cutter with modular structure, rounding off its range at the lower end.
Leancut is equipped with separate...
Rapid on-roller drying of extruded ceramic products with a moisture content of 16–20% was first introduced onto the market by Sacmi in the 1990s.
This need arose as a result of increases in the...
All industries and particularly the heavy clay ceramics industry are faced with the challenge of using resources efficiently. For the clay brick and roofing tile industry, this means making their...
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Antique or puristic – as far as surface finishing goes, neither excludes the other. But then, what do those two terms actually mean within the brick and tile industry?
“Antique”...
1 Introduction
In the scope of the Kyoto Protocol [1], the industrial nations were given the option to realize “Clean Development Mechanism” (CDM) projects in the developing and threshold...
Today, it is no longer acceptable for a manufacturer simply to claim that his products are sustainable. Transparent assessment and validation processes with the help of EPD are now becoming the norm....
