The ceramic body preparation shop integrates innovations designed to optimise and maximise the efficiency of the entire process, from the automatic management of raw material loading through recipe dosage all the way to powder loading in the storage silos. In this way, better performance is achieved in terms of energy savings, repeatability and process control, as well as product quality and consistency. Additionally, advanced predictive machine maintenance functions are available.

Alpha Ceramics GmbH in Aachen, an optimally equipped technical center, offers a broad variety of services for the ceramic industry as well as for adjacent sectors, ranging from trials and process development up to toll manufacturing of certain products. Furthermore, proprietery products are being developed and directly marketed, especially different types of kiln furnitures. Also small scale manufacturing of customer products is possible.

Storage allows production to be organised in batches, facilitating product changeover and increasing ceramic production efficiency. Handling of fired products is done with automatic vehicles. In the case of large size ceramic production, a solution is available with intermediate storage of fired product and the subsequent surface finishing and format cutting, depending on the job order. SACMI offers a wide range of machines to sort through and package tiles and slabs. Packaging can be with cardboard blanks for medium-small sizes or trays for larger sizes. For the packaging of large slabs, crates or trestles are used.

Riedhammer GmbH is the leading manufacturer of kiln plants worldwide. We offer besides our traditional business areas, like ceramics and sanitary ware, also new and innovative technologies for the steel and electronic industries. The company is the perfect partner for customers requiring advanced and reliable technological solutions for all thermal processes, including complete plant solutions, both upstream and downstream the kilns with installation - worldwide. Riedhammer offers the widest range of industrial kiln plants. The profound and long-term experience in the firing of tableware and sanitaryware, anodes, cathodes and electrodes, refractory and technical ceramics helps customers to realize the best quality for their products. Riedhammer also gained an enormous level of know-how in refractory kiln engineering thanks to the integration of two of the most traditional kiln engineering companies MENDHEIM and KERABEDARF.

LAEIS offers a wide range of high performance hydraulic presses for the production of refractories, fine ceramics, technical ceramics, salt blocks and tablets, special types of building materials, anodes for aluminium smelters and other carbon based products, and numerous other applications. Supplementary to the presses LAEIS offers a full range of press related auxiliary equipment like moulds, mould filling devices, and handling systems. The range of the offer is completed by after sales services including instruction and training of customer´s staff, inspection and maintenance as well as a fast and reliable spare parts supply.