With new technology, fly ash bricks and interlocking paver blocks both can be manufactured using same automatic machine equipped with hydraulic pressure and vibration simultaneously
Production of around 10,000 to 18,000 bricks a day can easily be achieved using such machinery that requires minimum deployment of labour as
Each brick can fetch a net profit of Rs 1- 2 depending on location of plant and market.
A net profit of Rs 4.5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh can easily be earned using a medium size bricks plant
Fly ash bricks unit requires a few labour for manually filling in raw material in mixers. However, rest of the process is automatic material goes to hopper through an automatic conveyor belt. Automatic pallet feeder feeds pallets for bricks. T hen it goes in material feeder where in both hydraulic pressure and vibration applied simultaneously and makes compact bricks. Through automatic stackers these bricks are stacked and then dried in open sun light
Paver blocks can also be made using the same machine by just changing the die. This machine does not require plastic or PVC moulds thereby saves lakhs of rupees
The business does not require employment of technically skilled labour. Machine manufacturing company provides instalment, service and training facilities and at times also the operators. The machine requires three phase electricity connect and an area of around 25,000 square feet. The bricks manufacturing business is profitable when plant is located near a thermal power station for availability of fly ash. Fly ash bricks manufacturing gets low in rainy season for vailability of fly ash as well as sunlight for drying flash.