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[December 2003]
Yankee Hill Brick Announced New Plant
Yankee Hill Brick & Tile (Lincoln, NE, USA) has announced it is to build a new brick plant at its current site in southwest Lincoln. The plant will increase the company's production capacity from 22 million bricks to over 40 million bricks annually.Yankee Hill has signed a contract with Swindell-Dressler Corp (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) for the turnkey construction of the plant, which will consist of dryer, a 106 metre-long tunnel kiln and automated brick handling equipment. Construction is expected at this stage to take around 12 months and so the company anticipates that the plant will be completed and bricks produced by December 2004.
David Kendle, Plant Manager at Lincoln, described the new plant as "a modern, automated plant capable of producing a wide variety of bricks consistent with Yankee Hill's expertise in architectural brick". Robots will handle the bricks prior to drying and firing. Brick packaging will continue in the same careful manner it has for decades with each piece being hand inspected.
The new tunnel kiln burns natural gas and is expected to prove 25% more fuel efficient than the one it replaces. The plant will also have the latest in environmental controls, including a flue gas scrubber.
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