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| An inspirational week at BAU with its approx. 180,000 national and international visitors lies behind us. At the completely booked out grounds at Messe München, 2,230 exhibitors from 58 countries showcased new products and trends. Exciting appointments, reunions with friendly conversations, new contacts and fresh impetus, joint plans and an honest exchange made the trip to Munich a successful start into the new year of top events. There is not much time for follow-up work after BAU. Hardly back at the desk in Gütersloh, and while editing the congress proceedings for the 69th BetonTage in Ulm – I am already directing my thoughts toward the next highlight of our industry. From 11 to 13 March, we will meet again at the largest European specialist congress of the concrete industry. It goes without saying that BFT will this year once again be the traditional media partner – and we are already full of anticipation. This year’s mission is “Rethinking sustainability.” Shall we meet at the BFT Café? Less than two weeks after BetonTage (07 to 13 April), the entire BFT team will head for Munich. And to where? Bauma, of course: the meeting place of the construction, construction-materials and construction-machinery industry. Stay well informed and inspired with this newsletter.
Yours,
Karla Knitter
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Figure: Fraunhofer IBP
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| | | The development of climate-friendly materials forwarded | | Reductions of more than two-thirds in CO2 emissions with consistently high quality: researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (IBP) are adjusting numerous key factors to make the future production of the familiar construction material as climate-neutral as possible. They will show their solutions at Messe BAU 2025 from 13 to 17 January in Munich ...
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Figure: Maxit Gruppe/fotolism_thai
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| | | Ecosphere technology for manufacture of infra-lightweight concrete | | Concrete meets glass technology: The Maxit Group (Azendorf) is setting new standards with a special product innovation in the concrete industry. The Group has succeeded in transferring the award-winning Ecosphere technology – based on the use of hollow glass microspheres as aggregate – to concrete. The result is a new infra-lightweight concrete which, in addition ...
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Figure: David Beer/CMA
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| | | Massive Firewall built with Precast Concrete for South African Fruit Distributor | | A massive firewall has been built between two Controlled Atmosphere (CA) storage facilities at Two-A-Day’s (TAD’s) apple and pear distribution centre in Grabouw, Western Cape. A hundred and thirtyfour metres long and rising to a height of 12.9m at its apex, the wall was built with mechanically anchored precast concrete columns and panels supplied by South African Concrete Manufacturers Association (CMA) member, Cape Concrete Works. TAD is one ...
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Figure: Quadra
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| | | Sebastian Müller AG‘s new wetcast production line | | Sebastian Müller AG, based in Rickenbach in the canton of Lucerne in German-speaking Switzerland, is specialized in the manufacture of concrete products for the building, civil engineering, road construction and landscaping sectors. Facade and staircase elements, as well as pillars, are also produced on request. Sebastian Müller AG recently selected the French automated equipment manufacturer Quadra to design and develop a new wetcast production ...
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Figure: Astra
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| | | 120 meters long concrete plant inside the Gotthard Road Tunnel | | The Gotthard Road Tunnel, one of the most important Alpine crossings and main connection between the region of Central Switzerland and Ticino, gets a second tunnel tube. On behalf of the Swiss Federal Roads Office (ASTRA), the „secondo tubo“ joint venture – consisting of Impenia and Frutiger – is currently building the second tube of the approx. 17km long road tunnel. KIBAG, the company responsible for the ...
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Figure: BFT International
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| | | ReCyCONtrol project consortium – Key technologies for the digital revolution | | Over the past three years, the ReCyCONtrol research consortium, which receives funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, has developed a completely new approach to producing fresh concrete in which sensors continuously monitor all steps of the production process while using artificial intelligence and computer vision to adjust the fresh concrete mix in response to fluctuations in its raw materials ...
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Figure: Space Eye / Daniel Sutter
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| | | Space observatory with façade cladding of precast carbon-reinforced concrete elements | | In Niedermuhlern, near Bern, in Switzerland, a space observatory recently opened to the public. The building, designed by the master architect Mario Botta, features façade cladding of precast carbon-reinforced concrete elements. This article is an excerpt from the project report published in the yearbook “Beton Bauteile 2025.”
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| | Suggest your project involving precast concrete products for an exclusive report published in the BFT magazine, free of charge | |
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| You have completed a construction project with precast concrete products successfully and now, you intend to present this project to your customer base, prospective customers and partners in the BFT trade magazine? Then, send us an email shortly describing the project. Or just call us. If the project is of particular interest to our readers, our editors would even like to pay you a visit for preparing an exclusive coverage for the BFT magazine in close coordination with you. Our service in this regard is free of charge.
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