Issue 01/2016

New year, new luck and new opportunities. Perhaps with a job in the precast concrete or supplier industry? At the 60th BetonTage in the German city...

BASF SE headquartered in Ludwigshafen am Rhein/Germany is one of the world’s largest chemical groups, with a workforce of more than 113,000 skilled...

In 2016, the BetonTage celebrated its 60^th anniversary. It served as a good reason for the BFT International journal – the longstanding exclusive...

Whether in apparel, groceries, electronics stores or similar shops – display systems become increasingly important for the stationary retail sector....

The new ECG electric forklift series from Kalmar is manufactured in Sweden and, with its three models, covers a performance range from 5,000 kg/600...

This year’s edition of the Engineering Days held in Vienna saw a real new launch: Upper Austrian entrepreneur Hubert Rapperstorfer presented the...

For the last 36 years, the Middle East‘s construction industry has hosted an annual gathering at The Big 5 in Dubai. Once again, this year saw 3,000...

Ultra-strength, highly insulating and slender – these are the adjectives Vertriebsgesell-schaft BauKom uses to describe new structural elements made...

Dubai’s Consent LLC has bought a concrete block machine from Techmatik for a whopping US dollars 2.7 million at Middle East Concrete. The Techmatik...

In Munich’s Trudering district a three-story school complex was built in keeping with the Passive House Standard, consisting of seven structures. To...

Wintersport-Arena Sauerland secured the support of J. Lehde GmbH based in Soest as part of its preparations for the coming skiing season: a new...

The company Molin Concrete Products has recently commissioned a precast plant for production of large-sized wall panels in Ramsey (Minnesota, USA)....

The narrow underpass in Östingstraße had long been a thorn in the flesh of the authorities of the city of Hamm. In the absence of a separate path,...

Concrete admixtures can influence the concrete strengths substantially. A method is called for in order to determine the strength contribution of CEM...

In 2005, a new production facility for paving blocks had already been put into operation at the Bavarian location of Haba-­Beton in Tüssling. The...

DIN 488-6 contains specifications for the surveillance of reinforcing steel, which have recently been supplemented by extensive specifications for...

An exhibition building, dedicated to the Brothers Grimm – the famous collectors of German folk tales from the 18th century –, has been constructed in...

Also referred to as the “Top of Germany”, the 2,962 m high Zugspitze mountain is a popular tourist attraction that includes three glaciers, a...

Eurobend offers one of the most comprehensive range of mesh welding lines for the production of any type of mesh used in precast operations and in...

“ How can we build in a highly efficient and resource-conserving way simultaneously? ” – This and many other challenges in relation to...

The joint inhouse exhibition for testing and measuring technology organized by the companies Form + Test Seidner & Co. GmbH, Riedlingen, infraTest...

At this point BFT International, f rom now on, regularly and in collaboration with the German associations listed under “Contact” below, is...

On 9 November 2015, the general assembly of the Berufsförderungswerk für die Beton- und Fertigteilhersteller e. V. (BBF; Association for the...

Max Frank aims to set a new standard in the construction industry by launching the new Egcobox Software 4.0. Its easy-to-use, state-of-the-art user...