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Common fired clay brick is one of the important building materials in India. Bricks are used as walling material in most residential and commercial buildings. They are also used for other applications, e.g. road and canal construction. India is the second largest producer of bricks in the world and is next to China in terms of brick production. The estimated brick production during the year 2000–01 was 140 billion . The brick production is estimated to be growing at a rate of 4% per year.

Bricks are produced at village and rural enterprise levels. The sizes of brick units are much smaller in the rural areas. However, in peri-urban areas, the size of brick producing units is much larger, and clustering of ...

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The goal of the project is to reduce energy consumption by creating appropriate infrastructure for sustained adoption of new and improved technologies for production and use of resource efficient bricks in India.

The objectives of the project are:

» To demonstrate REB technologies and develop technology models (supply side)

» To build awareness and develop sustainable markets for REBs among various
stakeholders such as builders, architects, individual end-users (demand side)

» To influence government organizations, financial institutions and policy and decision makers


Kusum Brick Field Kusum Brick Field is located in Hapur, District. Ghaziabad (UP) and is owned by Mr Sanjay Dadoo. Mr Dadoo belongs to 3rd generation in the business. His brick kiln unit has a production capacity of about 50,000 bricks per day with a general brick production season between December to July during the year. Read more

Events

» Awareness Workshop to promote the production of REBs
21 December 2011, Varanasi

» Awareness workshop on REBs and Better Feeding, Firing and Operating Practices
22 November 2011, Nawanshahar, Punjab

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The video shows semi-automatic brick production. While extrusion process is done in machine, the upstream and downstream processes have human interface for handling of bricks in different stages of production. The cost of semi-mechanization units are lower compared to semi-mechanization plants. Play now