QUALITY ADVANTAGES
Outstanding quality with the highest level of reliability.
Feldhaus stands worldwide for outstanding quality, durability, uncompromising reliability and innovative strength. Bricks for impressive facades and surfaces - Made in Germany.
We work closely with the trade and crafts, partners and processors, and regularly check how the quality of the products is perceived in the market. We use innovative methods to achieve continuous improvement of our products, solutions and services. Thousands of customers rely on bricks from Feldhaus.
The quality and durability of our products, our innovative strength and reliability, and our extensive product range are the reasons for our leading position in the market. Our plants are equipped with the latest technology. As a result of permanent optimization, Feldhaus products, also in combination with thermal insulation composite systems, have conquered a leading position in the international market for energy-related renovations and new buildings.
As a reliable partner to the trade and crafts, we offer an extensive range of bricks and are constantly developing new products to meet the latest color and style trends. One example of our innovative spirit is the production of brick slips in waterstruck look with the physical properties of a classic brick.
In addition to brick slips and facing bricks, the product range also includes robust paving bricks and small pavers for mosaic formation. All brick products are fired at temperatures up to 1,200°C. This makes them particularly resistant to all weather-related influences.
The beauty is that bricks from Feldhaus gain character over the years, delighting builders and investors for decades to come.
The quality properties of Feldhaus bricks include, in particular, low water absorption. While conventional hand-molded bricks absorb up to 20 percent of water, the measured value for Feldhaus bricks with a hand-molded look, for example, is only between two and five percent. Harmful weather influences cannot harm the brick. The stone remains clean and does not weather, the surface retains its beautiful appearance and color.
Other features at a glance:
- Frost resistant
- Environmentally friendly
- Low water absorption
- Color fast
- Weatherproof
- Non combustible
- Suitable for ETICS (brick slips)
- Conforming to standards
A house should be cool in summer and warm in winter. It should have an attractive facade, which you do not have to worry about, defy the wind and weather, and also survive many generations without damage. With bricks from Feldhaus, these requirements are easy to meet. Feldhaus clinker bricks protect and decorate new buildings in equal measure and meet the requirements of the German Building Energy Act (GEG, formerly the Energy Saving Ordinance EnEV). With the appropriate insulation, heating costs and maintenance expenses for your facade are permanently and noticeably reduced.
Feldhaus bricks are also perfect for old buildings. They are simply bricked with some distance in front of the load-bearing wall, without interfering with the existing building structure. Brick slips are bonded directly to the existing facade using an ETIC system. This is how you turn old buildings into real eye-catchers.
All our products are subject to a constant control and quality assurance process. Quality, warranty and safety are the top priorities at Feldhaus. Every single Feldhaus employee - whether in product development or support - contributes to quality assurance.
At every stage of production, the employees of the Feldhaus laboratory have access to retained samples and material, so that the cause can be quickly determined in the event of quality impairments. The employees carry out quality protection tests on the burnt bricks. The special properties of a Feldhaus brick - the low water absorption of up to six percent and the raw density of the body of at least 1.9 kg/dm³ are assigned to a compressive strength class. Although the brick is densely fired, it still has a capillary effect. The capillaries absorb water and release it again. This diffusivity is crucial for the wall structure and all weathering.
Our ceramic engineers are constantly developing new bricks in the laboratory. Products are tested in the small kiln and surface treatments are experimented with. Firing plates of new clays provide information on color and shrinkage behavior.
In addition to the tests performed by our own laboratory, we undergo independent third-party testing by Güteschutz Ziegel e.V.
Feldhaus bricks meet the requirements of DIN EN 771-1 in conjunction with DIN 20000-401. Clinker brick slips are manufactured in accordance with these standards and are listed in our factory standard defined in our factory standard. Pavers comply with DIN EN 1344 and DIN 18503.
SUSTAINABILITY & CSR
Responsibility for generations to come.
The harmony of economy, ecology and social responsibility has been an integral part of Feldhaus' corporate culture for generations. We define sustainable development as the instrument to achieve long-term growth and in doing so we feel responsible, beyond the manufacture of bricks, to create and preserve living spaces. We aligned our corporate social responsibility accordingly: Socially responsible and actively following ecological principles. For our employees, partners, customers and for the entire region.
Following clear environmental goals for all business areas, Feldhaus conducts all activities in an elaborate and sustainable manner. We permanently focus on investments for reducing energy consumption, resource preservation and renaturation. Resources are used responsibly and, in many cases, we go beyond the legal requirements. This includes the commitment to an environmentally friendly procurement ranging from the entire supply chain to business partners.
- decarbonisation
- preserving resources
- renaturation
These measures ensure that our customers receive environmentally compatible products.
Feldhaus is actively commited to health and safety on the workplace. To do this we pay attention to social and coporate standards and continuously work on developing them further. We mainly focus on the areas of social conditions, safety at work, site as well as environmental management.
Feldhaus promotes a value-oriented corporate philosophy which is not only based on quantitative, economic values but also on qualitative values such as moral-cultural, social and other non-financial ones. Acting responsibly and fairly is encouraged and achieved by employees who identify themselves with the corporate values and principles and independently recognise the right actions.
Finding the balance between social, economic and ecological factors is a challenge. Optimally using resources throughout the entire development and production process already starts in the field of product design when choosing the right materials, reduced use of materials and lower emissions during production.
Even during production Feldhaus corners prove their particularity: As Feldhaus corners don’t require a supporting brick, valuable raw material is saved. Material that doesn’t meet the quality requirements is returned to the production process. The innovative production method was awarded particularly environmentally friendly by the German Federal Environmental Foundation.
- Thin bricks and corners are directly extruded in the required mould and not cut.
- Use of exclusively non-labelled natural additives.
- Low-waste production with comparatively small primary expenses.
Awarded by the
GERMAN FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION
Supported by funds of the
EFRE & STATE OF LOWER SAXONY (SER)
