OREANDA-NEWS. June 20, 2007. Open joint-stock company Gomelglass is getting ready to put into operation a line for producing waste wood bricks. The start-up and commissioning over, the first samples of the product have been made. The production line is expected to switch to designed run parameters in late June, the company’s principal engineer Nikolai Biryukov told, reported the press-centre of Gomelinvest.

According to provisional estimates, the line will produce up to three tonnes of bricks daily using saw dust and wood chips. The company uses proprietary packing made of timber for transporting glass. The crushed manufacturing waste will be used as feed stock to produce the environmentally safe fuel.

The bricks will be shipped to outlets. At present such fuel costs $80-90 per tonne. With these prices, the company can turn out over $50,000 worth of bricks, many times more than raw saw dust would yield. The production line is expected to return the investments in a year.

Deputy head of the Gomel oblast agency for control over the rational use of fuel and energy resources Irina Omelyanovich believes, other wood-working companies could well use the wood brick production technology as long as locally available fuels are used effectively. If processing saw dust brings more profits than burning it in remote plants, such projects will be supported by the government.