Studio Boltshauser students under the direction of visiting professor Roger Boltshauser planned an almost nine-metre-high tower made of rammed earth for the Cham Brickworks Museum at the Technical...
Drying is one of the most elementary processes in the manufacturing of ceramic products. With the removal of the water necessary for plastic shaping, the shaped product is transformed from a wet and...
In a gap in the fabric of Schwerin’s old town, the firm planstudio9 has built an unusual residential and commercial building. The sensitively integrated clinker brick building is replacing a one-floor...
In November 2020, Germany’s Buildings Energy Act (GEG) came into effect with the aim of expediting the energy transition in the buildings sector. In an interview for Zi, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Holm...
The brickworks Ziegel- und Klinkerwerke Janinhoff and Ringofenwerk Gillrath have been making “steamed facing bricks” with absolute clinker quality for more than 15 years, according to the two...
Drying is one of the most elementary processes in the manufacturing of ceramic products. With the removal of the water necessary for plastic shaping, the shaped product is transformed from a wet and...
Operators of all kind of kilns and furnaces are facing significant challenges due to constantly increasing fuel costs and by government pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is...
Latermec is an Italian company which successfully operates in brick and ceramic industries for more than 30 years, offering regeneration and coating services on all of the components of the extrusion...
The use of secondary resources is a current trend and gaining increasing acceptance. In the meantime, in clay brick and roofing tile plants, too. This report presents a contact-metamorphically...
Almost all manufacturers of brick technology were able to put the pandemic situation behind them last year. Only the high prices for raw materials and delivery delays are a cause for concern, informs...
