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A new brick and tile plant for Uganda Clays Ltd in Kamonkoli

• »1 The new plant of Uganda Clays Ltd (UCL) was...

• »2 View across the clay preparation line

• »3 After ageing the clay mass is conveyed via box...

• »4 Extruder and cutter in the roofing tile...

• »5 Clay bat feeding line and roofing tile press...

• »6 View of the plant with the presses, dryer cars...

• »7 View of the top-fired kiln

• »8 Tunnel kiln car with stacks of half facing...

• »9 The kiln cars in the prefabricated tunnel kiln

The plant constructor Morando has built a new plant for Uganda Clays Ltd (UCL) in Kamonkoli (Budaka district), which was opened at the beginning of May. Six million roofing tiles and also half bricks or facing bricks will be produced here. It is intended to double the production in a second phase planned for 2011.

1 Introduction

Today the suppliers of complete preparation and production lines for the heavy clay industry must offer flexible, efficient and highly productive plants also in modular construction, which at the same time enable the customer to make savings in terms of costs, energy, work expenditure, process supervision and maintenance. The Italian plant constructor ­Morando has set itself the target of fulfilling these requirements of the market for higher production capacity with reduced costs.

For over 100 years, Morando has been designing and building components and complete solutions for...