Briquetting
Why briquetting?
- Creation of uniform products (size, volume)
- Reduce the volume of a powder
- Stabilise unstable mixtures
- Improve powder flow
- Keep a product dust-free
MAXTON’s briquette machines
Cold roll briquette machine 
Pilot roll briquette machine 
Lab roll briquette machine Fields of applications
- Chemicals (sodium sulphate, sodium chloride, carbonates, sodium cyanide, potassium cyanide, iron sulphate, potassium bromide, boric acid, urea, calcium hypochlorite, etc.)
- Minerals (alumina, bauxite, lime, dolomite, china clay, magnesia, fluorspar, paint pigments, sulphur, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, lead, zinc, etc.)
- Gypsum from power station flue gas desulphurisation
- Sponge iron
- Metallic oxides (Waelz oxides, rare earth oxides, zirconium hydroxide, ferroalloys, molybdenum trioxide, zircon sand…)
- Steel turnings
- Coal : production of briquettes for home heating or industrial purpose (partial coke oven charge, briquettes treated to obtain formcoke, briquettes for gasification)
- Coal for production of activated carbon
- Lignite, peat
- Charcoal
- Graphite, carbon black
- Coke paste
- Phosphate (hot or cold briquetting)
- Clay
- Detergents
- Frozen food
- Sugar
- Salt
- Glass batch
- Steelworks waste materials and by-products (sludge, mill dust, sintered products, mill scale, coke fînes, etc.)
- Dried sewage sludge
An Environmental Solution
- Recycle industrial waste
- Recycle beneficiated dust in an industrial process
- Eliminate pollution problems caused by airborne dust – air and ground pollution
Feasibility study
- Laboratory briquette press enables our client to conduct briquetting feasibility studies on a wide variety of products in very small quantities (about 10kg for one test)
- The studies include briquetting performance and strength tests
- If the results of the tests meet the client’s requirements, the project can move forward
MAXTON’s briquetting services:
- Design of briquetting plants
- Test runs and free feasibility studies at the workshop
- Basic and detail engineering of briquetting.
- Design and manufacture of all the equipment especially the key equipment (briquetting presses, mixers, dryers )
- Technical assistance for mounting and commissioning of the units
- Training of operators
- Supply of spare parts
- Modernisation of existing plants and equipment
- Adaption of using own briquetting technology to equipment manufactured by other makers
