Issue 04/2012

Having enjoyed two years of considerable sales growth (real growth rate in 2010: +13%, in 2011: +17%), the German manufacturers of machinery and...

The supervisory board of Lin­de Material Handling GmbH has renewed the contract of the chairman of the management board, Theodor Maurer, by four...

Hieber, the precast concrete specialist located in Wörleschwang in the district of Augsburg (Germany), presents an innovation: a patented cantilever...

Power electronics parts such as compensation reactors, inverters and bus bars are basic components of today’s modern infrastructure used for...

Sika Deutschland GmbH is continuing the successful series of trade seminars called „Bau & Praxis“ (building & practice) intended for architects,...

From 7 to 9 February 2012, over 1,800 participants from 20 countries attended the 56th BetonTage congress held at the Edwin-Scharff-Haus Congress...

What do you expect of this year‘s BetonTage? The BetonTage congress held in Ulm has been developing gradually to an outright top event of the concrete...

In your opinion, why do the participants come to panel 4? They are first and foremost interested in current practical issues in the factory. Who or...

How satisfied are you with the response to the contributions to panel 2? During the first half the room was attended by 90 %, during the second half...

Which findings / fresh impetus do you personally take home from the BetonTage congress? The subject of small wastewater treatment systems still seems...

How satisfied are you with the response to the contributions to panel 6? Panel 6 was very well-attended. Because of the tight schedule, the audience...

How satisfied are you with the response to the contribu­tions to panel 3? I am very satisfied with the number of visitors and the general response....

How satisfied are you with the response to the contributions to panel 8? I am very satisfied. In your opinion, why do the participants come to panel...

Deutsche Bauchemie (German association for manufacturers of construction chemical products) has presented the state-of-the-art report “concrete...

After about one year of intensive collaborative editorial work, MC-Bauchemie now presents the celebration publication “Dedicated to Innovation.” The...

Probst Greiftechnik Verlege-s­ysteme GmbH, the globally active developer and manufacturer of handling and laying equipment, celebrated its 50th...

The VS 5® paver system with longitudinal grass joints made by braun – Ideen aus Stein recently allows which seemed to be impossible so far: to create...

The GaLaBau exhibition is back again in 2012. From 12 to 15 September, the Nuremberg Exhibition Center will turn into a huge marketplace catering to...

Solar power has a future in Germany. Now that Germany is abandoning nuclear energy, ecologically generated power will increasingly move into the...

Today, designers, architects and clients can choose from a wide variety of state-of-the-art building materials that do not only comply with technical specifications but also enable aesthetically...

For a special type of structure, an additional Liebherr mixing plant at WEC-Turmbau in Magdeburg (Germany) produces quality concrete for prefabricated...

BETA Maschinenbau GmbH has developed a solution well-suited to turning heavy, bulky precast elements. The BETA lifting/turning beam pays off shortly...

This year, Mantis ULV-Spühgeräte GmbH was among the exhibitors at BetonTage in Neu-Ulm (Germany) for the first time. On this occasion the company...

The benefits of the construction material concrete, plus the many-varied properties of glassfoam granules all add up to TECHNOlith insulating...

The materials used in architecture should be subordinated to the design, but still contribute to it. The special properties of PORIT autoclaved...

Large lightweight concrete wall units provide a number of advantages: these elements of up to 11 x 3 m in size permit wide spans of the support grid,...

The book “Decorative and Innovative Use of Concrete” is a broadly chronological account of the decorative and innovative use of Portland cement-based...

Pilot 4: This NEW generation series of compression machines featuring Energy Saving technology (“ES technology”) has been developed to satisfy...

(10) US 8,123,435 B1 (22) Feb.3,2009 (45) Feb.28,2012 (73) Erosion Prevention Products, LLC, Houston, TX (US) (57) A concrete revetment block having...

(10) WO 2012/020012 A1(22) 9 August 2011 (09.08.2011) (43) 16 February 2012 (16.02.2012) (71) LAFARGE, 61 rue des Belles Feuilles, F-75116 Paris (FR)...

(10) WO 2012/017462 A1(22) 13 May 2011 (43) 9 February (71)MARTIGLI, Massimo [IT/IT]; Via G. Garibaldi, 17, I-50050, Capraia E Limite (FI) (IT) (57)...

(11) EP 2 423 265 A1 (22) 24.08.2010 (43) 29.02.2012 (71) Omya Development AG, 4665 Oftringen (CH) (57) The invention concerns a PROCESS for the...

(10) US 2012/0043698 A1(22) Aug. 18, 2011 (43) Feb. 23, 2012 (57) A method for construction of a concrete platform for use in slab track railroads,...

(10) WO 2012/018708 A1 (22) 1 August 2011 (43) 9 February 2012 (71) ROSETTA HARDSCAPES, LLC [US/US]; 05481 U.S.31 South, Charlevoix, MI 49720 (US)....

Shuttering panels have to withstand a lot of things on the construction site – vibrators or forklift trucks are often reason for cracks and scratches....

Time is money. This is especially true for the construction site. Apart from the time it takes to construct the building actually, the time required...