In the last few years, state-of-the-art manufacturing methods for the production of concrete blocks were gradually brought to perfection. Rampf Formen GmbH has already been working on process and...
Tying up to five times quicker
The worker just needs one hand to operate the tool leaving the other hand free for holding the steel or the pipe. The ergonomic tool weighing just 2.4 kg allows tying up...
In future, the impactors will be named according to their piston weight. The types PKL 125, 135, 150 (in future PKL 190, 450, 740) have a slight facelift while the impact force remains unchanged. The...
BFT INTERNATIONAL: Hello Mr. Körkemeyer, I‘m pleased that we were able to agree on an interview date at such short notice. At this year‘s BetonTage congress in Ulm, I also attended Panel 11 on...
A very strong demand for efficient building materials was the reason for WKB engineers to develop innovative machinery for the fully automated production of AAC U-shells and hollow bricks. So the...
At Kißlegg in Baden-Württemberg, the company offers a product portfolio that is rather unusual in today‘s market environment because the range encompasses almost everything from concrete pavers to...
The precast industry is hard-pressed to explain exactly what happened. Since 7 April it’s official: the German Precast Concrete Federation (BDB) will disband. Having fought so hard and unanimously...
At the tunnel opening ceremony of the second construction section of the Wehrhahn line on 7 April, Dirk Elbers, the mayor of the city, described the Kö-Bogen and the underground line of 3.4-km length...
The refractory industry, with over 50 production sites throughout Germany and Austria, is active in many countries of the world. Many companies also offer, in addition to burned blocks, so-called...
In 1961 Georg Pfender started a little machine shop, in which, a few years later, he designed and built his first cage machine for the local concrete pipe producer Rinninger. From there the success...
