Or: what makes a good grout– quality assurance in grouting technology High-tech kitchen, new pots, shiny pans and even a zucchini pasta cutter. Also a family recipe that makes your mouth water simply by reading – but what is it good for if maggots are in the flour and free…

It was an absolute premiere to which we sent Philipp and Peter in September. No, this blog is not about Ad Astra, the newest space movie starring Brad Pitt in the highly praised role of an astronaut on his galactic search for his lost father. While he is travelling to…

It is the year 1991. Imagine a bar, filled with cigarette smoke, a few long-haired men in leather jackets are bent over pool tables. Arnold Schwarzenegger enters the stage. In his birthday suit. “I want your clothes, your boots and your motorbike your power drill.” What has been a small…

The summer is slowly but surely coming to an end. Of course, we always stayed in our cool office so that our iguana does not get red scales. Meanwhile, we made a few improvements and additions to SCALES – but let’s start at the beginning. An entire construction site at…

Water is known to be the source of all life. We came from the sea (and every summer we are drawn back there), we consist of 70% water, some of us take a shower every now and then (what I’ve heard). However, in the tunnelling industry people mostly refer to…

Maybe for Tom Cruise but not for Meder Kamalov, master of mixtures. For our very own in-house doctor of chemistry who is responsible for research and development, is no mixing ratio too complicated and no quantity survey too difficult. And these are exactly the topics which he discusses in today´s…

What use is the best idea, if it does not withstand practice? Nothing, we say. So instead of spending a lot of time and energy on building castles in the air which collapse when you first enter, we prefer to ensure the quality of our products already during the development process.…

Digitisation is advancing. In class rooms, in the medical industry and all the way to the fashion industry (Who doesn´t know Sewbo´s sewing robot? And please don´t tell me, you haven´t got the interactive jacket made by Google and Levi´s?) it is slowly becoming the norm in all areas of…

There are many strange sayings. “Early to bed and early to rise – makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” for example – farmers, however, are usually no wealthier than the rest of us, no matter how often they rise at 4 a.m. to milk the cows. “Under an old…