The internationally operating family business Vandersanden Group has acquired its Northern Germany industry partner Ziegelwerk Blomesche Wildnis.Jean-Pierre Wuytack, CEO of the Vandersanden Group,...
The international port was the beating heart of Bremen’s economy for more than 100 years – until the end of port operations in the 1990s. Instead, the Überseestadt district, one of the biggest harbour...
Together with Deppe Backstein-Keramik GmbH, Steenfelder Betonwerk, Johann Meinders GmbH and Ripkens Wiesenkämper Beratende Ingenieure PartGmbB, a team of researchers has developed a process that ...
As part of a market development programme, Trend Industrial Ceramics Co. Ltd. has recently begun cooperating with Refratechnik Ceramics, the German company that was established in 2013 with the...
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...
