With the modernization of its semi-industrial laboratory unit, the French company Cleia (www.cleia-engineering.com) is underpinning its expertise as one of the world’s leading companies in ceramics...
Wienerberger AG presented sound results for the first quarter of 2011. Favourable weather across Europe at the beginning of the year and a robust new residential construction sector in a number of...
Customized solutions as well as products and systems that provide more efficiency and sustainability – to meet this challenge, the Beumer group (www.beumer.com), based in Beckum and with...
1 Introduction
Energy-saving in relation to the production process in the ceramic industry is increasingly becoming a topic of discussion. In the first place, there is increasing political pressure to...
6 Conventional air circulation systems for roof tiles
Rotary fans or air walls are also employed in roof-tile dryers of conventional design. Unlike air wall dryers for masonry bricks and clinkers,...
1 Basic features
1.1 Which components are required?
Provided that robot and PLC control system are already installed, an additional 19” touch screen operating panel and a computer with the K-matic...
1 Market overview and development
With the exception of aerated concrete, which is still only available as a homogeneous mass, the market is full of masonry bricks and blocks (made of clay or...
Despite first signs of recovery, housing construction in Germany still trails well behind most of the country’s neighbours in 2011. This is shown clearly in the calculations done by LBS Research on...
Brazil‘s heavy clay sector is preparing for the 40th National Meeting of the red ceramic industry, which this year will be held from 24th to 27th of August in Vitória, the capital of Espírito...
