1 Introduction
The firing of heavy clay products is subject to a number of such limiting factors as expansion and contraction processes, endothermic and exothermic reactions and the conversion and...
1 Introduction
1.1 Relating Physical Properties to Durability
The potential durability of clay building brick has been studied in some depth since at least the early part of the 1800’s [1]. A...
1 Introduction
Earthen architecture has been in renaissance since the 1980s. The days in which people who build homes of clay were belittled as a tree-hugging minority are over.
Loam and clay have...
1 Introduction
For the third time, and already emerging as a tradition, the forum was held at the Anderson Sports and EntertainmentCenter in Anderson, South Carolina.
As announced by Program Director...
Seven fat years for the Federal Republic of Germany and especially for the domestic property market have been forecast by Daniel Gross, Director of Brussels’ economic research centre CEPS, and even...
Demand for grinded products is rising steadily in Switzerland. Pursuing that trend, the Fribourg & Lausanne AG brick works have invested in a new grinding plant, incl. robotic loading and packaging...
A host of possibilities is available for decorating clay roofing tiles and facing bricks (extruded and water-struck bricks). The most important methods include centrifugal disc glazing, spraying and...
In the course of a small ceremony Laurenz Averbeck, the managing director of Keller HCW, celebrated his 25th anniversary with the company. He started his professional career as a graduate engineer in...
