Germany’s housing requirement totals 400 000 new builds per year, but in 2009 only 150 000 units are likely to be built. If the number of new units was increased to match actual demand, then...
This is the subject of a research project that is just now coming to completion at IZF, the German Brick and Tile Research Institute in Essen. Naturally, the project is but one more domino tile among...
For 25 years now the Thermoplan GmbH, with its headquarters near Munich, has been providing solutions from the fields of process automation, operational data logging and quality testing.
In its...
On 18 December 2008 the opening of the modern facing brickworks OAO “Kirovo-Tschepezki Kirpitschny Zawod“ took place in Kirovo-Tschepezk, the second largest town in the Kirov area, in the presence...
When the 34-year-old
Alois Berchtold married the widow of a brickworks owner in Wertingen in 1884 and started making plain tiles, nobody could have dreamt that the successful international brand...
With the opening of
their newly modernized clinker brick plant in Bannberscheid in February 2009, Röben Tonbaustoffe GmbH established itself as a specialist for customer-centred special...
Given the strained state of the overall economy, all segments of the fine and heavy clay ceramics industry are under renewed pressure to cut costs. As a result, the topics of material and energy...
Following record figures for visitor attendance at the last event, the next Bau in 2011 will have a new subtitle: the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Architecture, Materials, Systems. This...
From 19 to 22 August 2009, entrepreneurs from Brazil, South America and other parts of the world are expected in Belém, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Pará (Amazon Region). The 38th...
1 Introduction
In the production of backing bricks, as elsewhere, cost reduction is an increasingly significant topic of discussion. Optimized purchasing procedures and minimized energy consumption...
