The brick: this section is dedicated to updates and in-depth examinations on brick, its applications and sector regulations.
The quarries owned by the Group are chosen specifically to guarantee the quality of finished products. The excavation machines best adapted to exploit the quarry are chosen on the basis of the quality and potential of the clay bed, the possible impurities contained within it, and maximum and minimum humidity levels.
The preparation phase of the clay is very important for the quality of the finished product. It consists of a series of operations aimed at bringing the raw material from the state that it is found after excavation to the final condition in which it reaches:
This is the process through which the raw material is formed with water using a brick-moulding machine. The moulding of the product can take place through extrusion or pressing.
This phase consists in a progressive elimination of water and vapour from the brick, making it pass through large tunnels called “artificial dryers”, fed with hot air that is mainly recovered from the cooling of the baked material/clay.
The products are baked in modern “tunnel” ovens made up of tunnels closed at either end with a double wall system that the trolleys are rolled into in a continuous cycle.
Unloaded from the oven trolley, the bricks are packaged using metal or plastic bindings, or using shrink-wrapped or extendible polyethylene sheets.
