Beverage & Packaging Division - Sacmi

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In the heavy clay production area much work has been
done on a new-concept kiln featuring prefabricated
pressurised modules, designed to reduce consumption
by preventing the entry of cold air.
Then first module was displayed at Tecnargilla.
An important new order was also placed:
a turnkey plant designed to produce 1300/1400 tons
of hollow bricks per day.
This plant completes the already wide range of solutions
offered to the market, which spans from roof tile
production plants (both re-pressing and semi-dry pressing)
to extrusion and firing lines for ventilated facades
and plants for the production of face bricks.
Efforts also focussed on energy efficiency (in all Whiteware
business areas) so as to limit consumption of both
individual machines and complete plants.
Practical examples of this are seen in the design
and sale of systems that recover heat from fumes exiting
the kiln stack and use it to pre-heat both combustion air
and drying air.
Moreover, ways of using the scrap and ash produced
by waste disposal are being developed via the design
of plants that render them inert and thus make
then suitable as raw materials in brick manufacturing.