It is a generally known fact that travel expands your horizons. Experience abroad often helps you appreciate things more in your own country. That’s how it was for me on a holiday in the southwest...
Zi: We are now in the fourth quarter of this difficult year 2009. How severely have the Italian machinery and plant suppliers to the ceramics industry been hit by the crisis?
Pietro Cassani: 2009...
Zi: Mr Capaccioli, your company has been known and appreciated in the brick and tile industry for many years now as a designer and producer of automation solutions, dryers and kilns – in addition,...
1 Then and now
At its base in Vallendar, Opavsky, a tradition-rich company is now making products for the ceramics industry in the fourth generation.
Josef Opavsky, Great-Grandfather of today’s...
The Paris Commercial Court officially recorded the inception of safeguard proceedings (procédure de sauvegarde) for the parent company Keyria SAS. The court has initiated reorganization proceedings...
As plant and equipment
contractor Lingl and heavy clay conglomerate Unipor Brick Group announced at Ceramitec 2009 in Munich, the two companies have agreed to jointly market plant and apparatus for...
The French Groupe Legris Industries is supporting the plan of enhancing the heavy clay activities within Legris.
The aim is to bundle the competences of the companies Keller HCW, Novoceric, Rieter,...
To further enhance the familiar high quality of milled chamottes by Goerg & Schneider, the company recently installed a Rhewum type-WA screening machine in their non-plastics pulverizing plant. The...
In 2010, the Nijmegen-based Dutch company Machinefabriek De Boer, known as a supplier of special presses and soft-mud brickmaking machines for the ceramics industry, is joining forces with its...
The newly established company ZMB Braun Inc. introduced itself to North American brick people at the 2009 Clemson Forum. The U.S. subsidiary of German diemaker Braun GmbH recently acquired a...