Wienerberger has acquired Vesterled and Helligsø, two brick producers with a long-standing tradition in the Nordic countries operating highly efficient production sites in Denmark. Moreover ...
Nexe Group, a well-known brick and roofing tiles manufacturer with plants in Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, is continuing its collaboration with the Italian company Bedeschi. The decades-long ...
In 2020 bricks will be fired for the first time at the Open-Air Museum Ballenberg in the large shaft kiln of the tilery from Péry BE, dating from 1762 – a unique experiment in Europe. The firing will...
At the age of just 57 years, Dr. Markus Schiessl, BMI Group, died suddenly and unexpectedly in the night from 7 to 8 October 2019.Dr. Markus Schiessl had been with the company for more than 25 years,...
In this issue, we have again brought together some exciting topics from the brick and tile industry.We inform you about a research project in which multi-curved brick shells are constructed from flat ...
This year, the whole of Germany, if not the whole world, is celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Bauhaus. This is a good reason to examine the legacy of Bauhaus architecture more...
At the Brick and Tile Research Institute in Essen, a numerical and two-dimensional simulation model was developed on the basis of the DIN EN ISO 10140 series of standards. The objective was to analyse...
For building approvals for high-precision vertically perforated bricks, structural strength tests on individual bricks and specimen walls are essential. For high-precision vertically perforated bricks...
At the 55th Würzburg Brick and Tile Training Course 2017, Keramikinstitut Meissen presented a test for the weather resistance of roofing tile glazes and engobes (leaching test). For the test, boiling...
You get used to recurring faults, e.g. underpressure, in compressed air systems. The actual energy requirement is not really tangible in comparison to the physical optimum, and manufacturers and...
