Bricks proven reliability passes the test of time in any climate. Its insulating capabilities and passive solar heat retention make brick equally suitable for hot summers and cold winters. Nature creates the basic material used in brick manufacture. The weather and chemical reactions break up rocks producing fine-grained earth called clay.
Clay is workable when wet and can be moulded to any shape. A brick is made by wetting clay, pressing it into a mould, which creates blocks. These blocks are fired in a kiln until they are hard.
The process of making bricks generally consists of the following steps:
*Gathering, crushing, grinding, screening, and mixing the raw materials producing the brick
*The setting, drying, firing
*Packaging and inventorying is the final processing in the manufacture of bricks.
Before you start manufacturing consider completing a business course. This will be invaluable as you will learn about financial management, sales, marketing, understanding a balance sheet and more.
1, Prepare a business plan
It is very important to have a comprehensive business plan which should include your strategic focus, a marketing plan, operations plan, staffing plan and a financial plan. A business plan helps to clarify objectives and spells out what you want to achieve in your business.
2, Location
Make sure you find a location within 30–50Km from your target market
Also you need to get a place which is better easy to get the raw material of blocks.
If you planning for hollow block manufacturing also the I would suggest locating near a local quarry and also where water availability is good.
3, Selection of machinery
Local machinery: If you are in some countries like India, South Africa, Brasil which should be some local brick making machine manufacturers. You can check with their quality, price and service if it is good for you. The best advantage to choose a local machine is that you can get the after service much earlier and maybe also no language difference.
Imported Machinery and Chinese Machinery: European machinery are very expensive but they have long service interval and high rate of production up to 6000 bricks per hour.
Chinese Machinery will be have more options and maybe cheaper.It should be the highest cost performance. You can check our blog so that you can have a brief looking at top Chinese Brick making machine manufacturers: https://www.xizipallet.com/top-10-china-block-making-machine-manufacturers-complete-guide-before-you-buy-machines-from-china/
Most imported machine’s are conveyor type machines hence the bricks have to be manually stacked after it rolls out of production.
I would suggest you to buy a complete production line, which includes batching and mixing plants, because in future due to man power shortages an automatic machine will be much cheaper and the quality of mix will be much better.
And also usually you will need to get the pallets for your block making machine. Xizi offer the different types for you and strongly suggest our composite production pallet, you will save a lot and produce only the higher quality brick with our pallets. Xizi Pallet have any size and suitable all the brick making machine brand & types.
4, Training
After everything is ready then you have to hire some workers for your brickyards, and maybe some training before production is needed.
At last, all the best for your new business in brick industry. If you need any question please feel free to comments on this article or email us. Thank you.
Good day…..can you estimate a start up cost. Mor a small operation with a full automation system