90 years of BFT International
My highly respected colleague Karla Knitter has already addressed the topic in an earlier issue: your BFT International Betonwerk + Fertigteil-Technik, dear readers, will become 90 years old this year.
Starting out in the late 1920s as the cast-stone journal “Betonstein-Zeitung” with only a few years of interruptions – owing to World War II – BFT has now for nine decades been the recognized industrial magazine covering the production of concrete products and precast elements, and for the companies active in all areas of precast construction. It primarily addresses executives in this significant industrial sector; it is distributed worldwide. The specialized articles in BFT International provide comprehensive information – ranging from mechanical equipment in the plants from mixing processes to transport of the complete products. In parallel, products and project descriptions provide ideas for design and construction. With regularly new special sections such as, just recently, “Green Challenge”, with focus on sustainability, we intend to stay up to date.
In addition, reports on companies, associations and product innovations offer the possibility of keeping up with current industry happenings. As media partners of FBF for the Betontage in Ulm, as well as the BIBM for its Congress, we have maintained partnerships over many years – on the basis of mutual trust.
While browsing the 6/1965 BFT issue (so to speak, my personal “birthday issue”), I came across the editorial written by my predecessor at that time with the heading: “On the way to an efficient traffic network?” This question, like many others, is today doubtlessly more current than ever before. It could therefore also easily be the topic of this issue before you. I wish you much enjoyment in reading it.
