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Heluz – One of the most modern common brick factories in Europe

• »1 Box feeder in the area of raw material feeding

• »2 Grinding pan in the material preparation...

• »3 Fine roller mills in the material preparation...

• »4 Ageing plant with fully automatically...

• »5 Shaping plant consisting of: box feeder, roller...

• »6 Cutting device

• »7 Pallet loading by means of 4-axis industrial...

• »8 Wet side consisting of: cutting device, pallet...

• »9 Dryer cars loaded with wet products in front of...

• »10 Hot air duct with distribution lines to the...

• »11 Dryer exit sluice

• »12 Dryer car and pallet unloading

• »13 4-axis industrial robot for setting the kiln...

• »14 Top fired tunnel kiln

• »15 Tunnel kiln exit sluice

• »16 Kiln car with fired products

• »17 Transfer device to separate the incoming brick...

• »18 Grinding machine

• »19 Packaging plant with transfer device

• »19 Removal of the dispatch packs

• »20 Graduate Engineer Vladimir Heluz, Owner of...

At the beginning of March 2009 the Heluz brick factory in the Czech town of Hevlin on the Austrian border was officially commissioned. The foundation stone for the new brick factory was laid in October 2007. The planning and implementation of this new highly modern common brick plant lay with Keller HCW; the preparation equipment was supplied by Rieter-Werke in Constance. The new manufacturing facility increased the total production of the company by 40%.

1 Project

A completely new production plant for the manufacture of highly porous common bricks with an output of 800 t/d of fired goods was built on the existing factory site. Different sizes with a bulk density of up to 0.6 kg/dm^³ can be manufactured in the factory. Grinding of the complete production is possible.

The basic raw material for the manufacture of the common bricks is clay from the existing pit, which is mixed with sawdust and papermaking sludge as pore-forming agents. The use of polystyrene as an additive is also possible. The necessary raw material testing was carried out in the...