Swissbau, the leading fair for the construction and real-estate industry in Switzerland, came to an end after five very successful days. With 115 111 visitors (+6.5%) and top marks from the just...
Over the four days of this year’s Roof+Timber International, 55 800 roofers, carpenters, architects and designers (2008: 48 300) came to the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre to gather information...
In 2008, Pabrik Genteng Keramik “Good Year” in Surabaya, Indonesia, decided to build a tunnel kiln in cooperation with Keller HCW GmbH.
Pabrik Genteng Keramik, a medium-sized enterprise, has...
1 Introduction
The construction market in Algeria is booming. The entire heavy clay production is consumed by the domestic market. In accordance with the Five-Year Plan (2010 – 2014), more than...
Cleia is building an ultra-modern clay roofing tile factory in Portugal for the company CS-Coelho da Silva. This is one of the first major investments in Europe since 2009 and it is a significant...
The sustained upswing in Germany‘s housing sector has been a boon for Unipor-Ziegel-Gruppe and its 11 member companies (15 locations): This network of middle-market heavy clay producers has logged...
1 Introduction
Albrecht Türrschmiedt added not only pretty music and poetry to the sounds of brickmaking, but also the huff and puff of hard-working steam engines, the rattle and clank of...
1 Sustainability label
Sustainability has become an omnipresent term. It is used in numerous contexts and denotations. According to definition, and as illustrated in »1, the term sustainability...
1 Numbers and facts
Around 60 bill. t/pa abiotic raw materials (mineral resources, energy resources, ores) are consumed worldwide today, almost 50% more than in 1980, with an upwards trend. The...
Zi: Until now, consumers have only been familiar with the Ecodesign Directive to the extent that it pertains to the classification of such items as refrigerators and washing machines. Will brick and...