Maximum production flexibility
for the Fauci Group’s plant in Sciacca

»1 Fauci-Group, a traditional-steeped concern
with a view to modern times

»2 The soaking house equipped with Rieter machinery provides homogeneous raw materials

»3 “Line tracking” wet-side robot

»4 Dry side handling of oversized pallets

»5 If necessary, the dry products can be set on their cut faces by means of the starwheel turner

»6 Loading of dry products on kiln cars

»7 Control Room

»8 Pre-kiln heater and kiln roof with burners

»9 Kiln entrance with upstream sluice

»10 Fired product exit

»11 Cooling zone of kiln

»11 Kiln car cleaning equipment

In cooperation with Keller HCW, Fauci Group has modernized their plant in Sciacca, Sicily, making it fit for the future in a two-stage project. After the wet and dry side plus setting station were renewed and the dryer convertion in 1997, this latest stage of modernization saw the installation of the most modern available setting and firing technology.

1 Introduction

The traditional-steeped Fauci Group is one of the most important brick manufacturers in Sicily. Through farsighted strategic investments at one facility after another, the Group is ensuring its overall marketplace consolidation.

The group has four production sites – one each in Sciacca, Colessano, Agrigento and Fondachello Valdina (all in Sicily). Their production range encompasses nearly all kinds of common bricks, partition wall bricks, bricks with vertical and horizontal perforations, newly developed thin-rib thermoblocks, and ceiling blocks of various size for diverse...