With its Packaging Award, UFEMAT draws attention to sustainable packaging solutions. This year’s winner was announced during UFEMAT’s 61st General Assembly in Montreux, Switzerland. The first prize...
TÜV Nord has certified perlite-insulated Poroton-T7, Poroton-S8 and Poroton-S9 clay blocks from Schlagmann Poroton as “climate neutral bricks”. That distinction is based on both the reduction and...
Beralmar, the Spanish plant engineering company, has realized optimization projects at two plants owned by the Nexe Group. With a total of eleven tunnel kilns in Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia, the Nexe...
Keller grinding technology is a product segment in which the plant and machine engineering company based in Ibbenbüren, Germany, is constantly further developing its portfolio and facing the challenges of the market. The targets and needs of the customers are ...
This year’s Clemson Brick Forum is taking place from 1 to 2 October, to be held again at the Anderson Civic Center in Anderson, S.C. Hosted by the National Brick Research Center (NBRC), the Forum...
In 2019, Wienerberger is celebrating its 200th anniversary. Over the years, the company has developed from a brickworks in Vienna to a globally operating manufacturer of construction materials...
The use of advanced analytics is now common practice in many industries. Tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook have built their business model on intelligent algorithms to make smarter,...
Currently in occupational safety, mainly lagging indicators are used, such as LTIFR (Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate), which means measuring something negative, namely the absence of safety. These...
To be successful in the medium and long term, companies need a strategy. In management theory there are many approaches to as well as several schools (of thought) on developing a strategy. It is...
A numerical model for determining the sound transmission of vertical-core bricks is described. The effects of different material parameters on the numerically calculated sound insulation of a...
