Issue 04/2015

The moment chewing gum with a new flavor goes on sale, marketing talks about an innovation. Runnning shoes in a new color – again an innovation. The...

On the occasion of the Industry Forum in Ulm, Germany, the Eberhard Schöck Foundation awarded the Schöck Building Innovation Prize for the fifteenth...

Sofistik AG reorganizes its Executive Board. With the appointment of Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Stefan Maly (MSc.) (37), the software manufacturer for...

An air-hardening mineral foam made with mineral binders has outstanding advantages as insulating material. Gertec has developed a new, innovative...

Photoment is a concrete admixture with photocatalytic activity. It consists of a combination of flyash particles and different titanium dioxides...

The Johann Gumbrecht Tiefbau company, based in Wachenroth about 500 km north of Nuremberg, bought their first Hunklinger paver laying clamp type P03...

The Thermomass MS-T ­Series connector is a modified MS Series connector designed with a patented threaded overmold. This connector was developed...

Inifinity Line enables gridless shuttering of precast concrete elements, without the need for filler elements. The objective of the developers was the...

Riese Electronic has developed an ultrasonic apparatus for precisely determining setting time tE of concrete and cement. The principle of action for...

The innovation consists of a combination of a wall connection reinforcing cage with a permanently welded sealing system, which is thus optimally...

The object of the application is “DornerConnect,” a tool that provides for a common exchange of the corporate sectors Management, Quality Assurance...

Higher and higher, wider and wider – the superlatives that are often taken up in sports can also be applied to other sectors. In the construction and...

A continuing training platform for the precast concrete industry and its market partners, a lobbying event for the building material concrete, an...

The upward trend in precast concrete products production that became evident in the last decades continued in Germany. For the year 2014, the industry...

At the end of February, specialty chemicals company Lanxess held a ceremony in Berlin to present its second Colored Concrete Works Award to an...

Peikko is actively promoting the process of having its subsidiaries overseen by local senior managers. Effective 16 March 2015, management...

At its headquarters in Lönin­gen in the German State of Lower Saxony, the Remmers Group has recently opened a forum of exchange, information and...

In the event of a tunnel fire, there is hardly any possibility for the heat to escape, leading to a temperature increase to over 1,000 0C within an...

Cemex Deutschland AG is supplying approximately 3,800 m² of ready-mixed concrete to Campus Nord of the Humboldt University in Berlin. The awarding...

The automatic Elematic E9-16-5 a lifting beam for precast wall products improves work site efficiency and safety. Thanks to its remote-controlled...

On an area measuring about 7 hectares, the new industrial estate “In der Langfuhr” has been developed in the German town of Bendorf in the district of...

A newly developed BT turnbuckle for thin wall constructions, type designation “M12,” a new innovative, sealing surface coating with high mechanical...

At present, about 40,000 parking spaces for trucks with overnight accommodation are lacking on German freeways. The German Federal Ministry of...

The Reymann group of companies realized, in cooperation with the Peruvian customer Llaxta, a modular housing production system for creating...

At the end of February, Jordahl Innogain was awarded the Innovation Award of the Supplier Industry for Building Parts at the 59th Ulmer Beton Tage....

Lately, Weckenmann Anlagentechnik GmbH & Co. KG, being a leading German supplier for precast concrete factories, presented a new concept for mobile...

The station in the Swiss town of Thayngen is part of the railroad line from Zurich to Stuttgart. The European Union has classified this route as a...

At the trade fair BAU held in Munich, Schöck Bauteile GmbH presented the new Isokorb ID for subsequent installation of precast concrete components,...

This year again, about 220 customers, business partners and interested participants accepted the invitation to attend the two-day “Dornburger...

More than 200 exhibitors and thousands of trade visitors paid their respect to the fifth anniversary of the UK Concrete Show held at the NEC...

Aerogels have superior thermal insulation properties and are permanently hydrophobic. In a research project, a lightweight concrete was developed that...

Haba-Beton, the German manufacturer of concrete pipes, shaft systems, monolithic containers, environmental engineering and paving blocks, has...

Eco-conscious clients more and more often decide in favor of permeable pavers – even when it comes to large areas. The so-called “Einstein” pavers,...

Betonwerk Linden, founded in 1966, is manufacturing paving blocks and slabs as well as numerous other ­concrete products and products for civil...

The Rinninger concrete factory has been specialising in the production of high-grade concrete goods for the structural engineering, civil engineering,...

(11) WO 2015/027192 A2 (22) 22 August 2014 (22.08.2014) (43) 26.02.2015 (84) ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG,...

(10) DE 20 2014 008 722 U1 (22) 30.10.2014 (45) 26.02.2015 (73) IAB - Institut für Angewandte Bauforschung Weimar gemeinnützige GmbH, 99428 Weimar, DE...

(12) CA 2867964 A1 (22) 2014/10/16 (45) 2015/02/06 (71) BUZIMKIC, EMIN, CA; BAUGAARD, KEITH, CA (57) There is provided a reinforcing steel structure...

(10) WO 2015/024656 Al (22) 20.08.2014 (43) 26.02.2015 (84) ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW),...

(11) US 2015/0033644 Al (22) Feb.15,2013 (43) Feb. 5, 2015 (71) Kilonewton-Consultores de Engenharia Lda., Aveiro (PT) (57) The present invention...

(10) US 2015/0040499 Al (22) Aug. 7, 2013 (43) Feb. 12, 2015 (71) Benjamin Bravo, Caguas, PR (US); Heriberto Luis Bravo, Caguas, PR (US) (57) These...

(10) WO 2015/025789 Al (22) 3.08.2014 (43) 26.02.2015 (71) ASAHI KASE HOMES CORPORATION) [JP/JP]; T 1608345  Tokyo(JP). (57) A block (10) according to...

(10) DE 10 2013 216 343 A1 (22) 19.08.2013 (43) 19.02.2015 (71) Wobben Properties GmbH, 26605 Aurich, DE (57) Zusammenfassung: Es wird ein...