IZF Brick and Tile Research Institute Essen Regd. is working in the whole area of the architectural (building) ceramic particularly for tiles, building bricks, surface bricks, engineering bricks and paving bricks as well as relative products like stoneware pipes.

His structuring in departments dominates IZF in the research and development of all questions of the manufacturing and application of bricks connected which technical tasks.

Our ceramics department is capable of:

- exploration of clay pits
- raw material testing and optimization
- shaping behaviour
- drying behaviour
- firing behaviour
- optimal product firing curve
- investigation into ceramic body properties
- investigation and assessment of clay pits
- optimization of raw material mixture
- identification of production faults
- moisture dilatation and investigation of moisture dilatation behaviour
- fluorine emission behaviour of original bricks
- testing of additives