Restarting a masonry brickworks in Nigeria

Restarting operation at the Kano Brickworks in Bagauda, Nigeria, following a two-year shut-down since 2008 proved no easy task. Wear of the machines and equipment necessitated extensive repairs. For the production of high-quality clay masonry bricks, investments are required, especially in shaping.

1 Introduction

Besides valuable resources such as diamonds, gold and crude oil, high-quality clays are also found in Africa. These are suitable for the production of masonry bricks. Across the entire continent, mud bricks are very common. The author has lived more than three years in different African countries and everywhere there, in the Congo, in the Sudan, in Cameroon, in Gabon, in the Central African Republic and in Nigeria too, bricks are made mainly by hand in the countryside.

In the hand moulding process, the mud body is struck by hand into wooden or metal moulds and the green bricks are...

Related articles:

Issue 2012-1-2

Otto Staudacher Brickworks starts operation of second brick filling installation

Staudacher Brickworks in Balzhausen, part of the Thermopor Group, has responded early to the growing requirements for the thermal insulation of residential buildings. Its second latest generation...

more
Issue 2008-12 Company Profiles

Quality and tradition – handmade bricks from Sindal

Falkenløwe Brickworks “Sindal Teglværk”, Sindal (Denmark)

1 Introduction The name Falkenløwe is synonymous with traditionally made clay brick products. Enewald Falkenløwe Senior founded the company in 1962 and built up a clay brick sales business over the...

more
Issue 2009-04 Brick Plant Sicomac Ltda., Tarija, Bolivia

Optimization of production in a Bolivian brick plant

1 Introduction Both very old and also newer technology exists in the Sicomac brick plant. The objective of the Bolivian partner was to optimize the actual state and to modernize the plant further, in...

more
Issue 2009-08

Preserving Brickmaking Tradition – the Tuilerie-Briqueterie Pierre Lanter, Hochfelden-Alsace/France

1 Company History The history of the Lanter brickmaking family begins with Jacques Pfister, who practised the trade of the brickmaker around 1800 in Hochfelden/Alsace. Of his four sons, Anton Pfister...

more
Issue 2013-12

Flintsbach Clay Brick and Lime Museum

At the heart of Flintsbach Clay Brick and Lime ­Museum ?is the kiln dating from the year 1883 in which lime and bricks were fired up until 1968. On the open air grounds of the ensemble of buildings,...

more