In addition, Bramac has locations in Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
Braas Monier is represented in the following countries in Europe, Africa and Asia: Braas Monier operates a so-called Technical Centre for[9] research and development with locations in Heusenstamm near Frankfurt/Main, Germany, and in Crawley in the South of London, UK, where new and existing products are being developed and tested.
Here, geologists, material scientists, chemists, physicists, product designers and engineers work together in interdisciplinary teams.
Products are subject to tests for handling, wind load, fire behaviour, weather resistance and ventilation.
Thousands of product samples are placed for regular review in the company's own weathering stations in eight countries all over the world in order to simulate their behaviour under different climates.
A wind tunnel, located at the Technical Centre in Heusenstamm, is able to simulate extreme weather conditions which typically arise only every 50 years.
Fans, sprinkling nozzles and a hydraulic system for changing the roof pitch help to test the products in four weather scenarios.
[10] Products which have been tested successfully are – for instance by Braas Germany – being issued with a 30-year-guarantee for the material and an additional 30-year-guarantee for frost resistance.
[11] Employees of Braas Monier's Technical Centre are actively involved in the following committees, associations and organisations which – among others – work on the development of industry standards: European Cool Roofs Council,[12] National Federation of Roofing Contractors,[13] Building Research Establishment, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), IFD International Federation for the Roofing Trade,[14] European Committee for Standardization (CEN), British Standards, Cool Roof Rating Council,[15] Deutsches Institut für Normung, National House Building Council, Construction Products Association, lifeHEROTILE.
After an expansion period between 1949 and 1951 in which Redland invested in South Africa, Australia and Malaysia, the company bought the majority of Braas in Germany.
From its market entry in 1954 until now, the "Frankfurter Pfanne" (English: Double Roman) has been the most laid concrete tile model in Germany.
[19] In 1958, four years after market entry, the word and figurative mark "Frankfurter Pfanne" was registered with the patent office.
In the early 1950s Braas Monier expanded into non-European markets for the first time by going into South Africa, Australia and Malaysia.
The market entries into Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and the USA between 1973 and 1979 marked one of the strongest expansion periods of the company.
The company was first listed on the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on 25 June 2014.