Übersetzung für "Vitreous china" in Deutsch

Until now there was no recycling path for vitreous china, which is a high-quality recycling material.

It includes all fine ceramic and coarse ceramic moulding compositions, such as stoneware, crockery, vitreous china, bone china and especially porcelain, also industrial ceramic compositions, for example on the basis of silicon carbide, silicon nitride, aluminium oxide and zirconium oxide.

Vitreous china meets the highest hygienic requirements as the only approved material for WC and urinal production.

With firing cycles lasting 12-24 hours, the machine can manage some 675 pieces per cycle and can even fire different product types simultaneously (Vitreous China, Fine Fire Clay, Coarse Fire Clay).

With arbitrary non-linear shrinkage of around 10% in the drying and firing process, vitreous china is the oldest and also the most difficult to control material.

A questionnaire-based survey carried out in several Länder by the Forschungsinstitut für Tief- und Rohrleitungsbau Weimar e.V. (Research Institute for Civil and Pipeline Engineering Weimar) showed that the demolition of buildings and the refurbishment of bathrooms in Germany results in around 150,000t vitreous china waste every year.

This material is stored with the building rubble on landfill sites and does not include dumps of high-tension insulators which also contain vitreous china.