Equipceramic receives order from Yamama Company for red bricks
Yamama Company for red bricks, Riyadh – KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) has entrusted Equipceramic, the Spanish plant engineering company, with building a new production plant in Nisah.
Yamama Company for red bricks established its first brickworks in the 1970s and today operates five plants producing a wide range of non-load-bearing blocks, load-bearing blocks, facing perforated bricks, pavers and roofing tiles. Today, thanks to its quality standards, it is one of the leading clay building material producers in the Gulf States and the Middle East.
This project was signed after several months of detailed technical analysis and fine tuning by a joint team of Equipceramic and Yamama engineers. The preceding analysis ensured that the plant is adapted to Saudi requirements and incorporates the latest technological developments.
Project data
Production capacity: 700 t/day
Product range: perforated blocks, load-bearing blocks, hourdis, facing bricks and pavers
Covered area: 18 000 m2
Production start: spring 2016
Technical features include:
Double cutting line
Robot for setting, unstacking and packaging
EQC hyper-ventilated dryer with high energy efficiency and optimum cycle
High-thermo-insulated tunnel kiln
State-of-the-art software packages for process control and traceability
Clay preparation and shaping machines to be supplied by Bongioanni Macchine, Italy
Following completion of the North Crescent plant in Erbil, Iraq, which has been producing 1 200 t/day since February 2015, and the project for Clayco in Homs (Syria) started up in 2009, the Yamama project is consolidating Equipceramic’s position in the Middle East.
