The company Lassmann Kommandite with its headquarters in Wirges has been involved in clay mining since 1936, employs 50 people and is currently actively operating nine clay pits in...
The headquarters of CRH Clay Solutions GmbH has been moved from Peine to the production site of the company’s Albert plant in Steyerberg, around 100 km away. The company’s administration and part...
1 Introduction
The Grasten Teglvaerk brickyard is owned by a venerable old Danish brick-making family who, for 8 generations now, have been producing some 30 varieties of high-quality facing bricks in...
Latest-generation strapping machines from Gerd Mosca AG use ultrasonic sealing technology. In everyday practice, that can reap a number of advantages. Convinced of this, Creaton AG obtained several...
Back in August, when Rieter-Werke announced that they would be closing down their facility in Constance, the ceramic industry got a case of the nerves. Lots of Rieter’s customers were worried...
Grinding of fired common bricks has well-established in Europe.
The firms Keller HCW and novoceric Transportanlagen both have already delivered more than 60 surface grinding machines. With this...
At the location Wiener-
berger Deest (Netherlands), moisture measurement in clay has always been an important subject. With an accurate and reliable measurement, production failures due to too high...
By adding only a few per cent of round-grain feldspathic sand, numerous roof-tile producers have exerted positive influence on both their production processes and the properties of their products....
1 Sales and market developments
1.1 Building market
The growth of 3.6% expected at the beginning of 2008 for the total building market had to be adjusted to 3.25% at the end of the year. Beside new...
The architects designed a straight-lined, 120 x 70 m-large two-storey building, with the façades facing towards the Stuttgarter Strasse as well as on the northern and southern flanks clad with...
