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Acme Brick Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of brick and masonry-related construction products and materials.Founder George E. Bennett (October 6, 1852 – July 3, 1907), chartered the company as the Acme Pressed Brick Company on April 17 1891, in Alton, Illinois, [1] although the company's physical location has always been in Texas.
The factory in Taylor, Washington, was near heavy glacial clay deposits in an 80-foot (24 m) high bank used to make the brick, and could produce 100,000 bricks a day in 1907. [3] Hydraulic mining was used to extract clay from the hill. [4] The factory produced 58 million bricks in 1917. [5]
Fly ash bricks. Fly ash brick (FAB) is a building material, specifically masonry units, containing class C or class F fly ash and water. Compressed at 28 MPa (272 atm) and cured for 24 hours in a 66 °C steam bath, then toughened with an air entrainment agent, the bricks can last for more than 100 freeze-thaw cycles.
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Large bricks on a conveyor belt in a modern European factory setting A brickworks , also known as a brick factory , is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks , from clay or shale . Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock (the most common material from which bricks are made), often with a quarry for clay on site.
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The Powell & Minnock Brick Company was founded in the late 1880s by members of the Powell and Minnock Families. The company closed down in 2001. The company closed down in 2001. In 2006, the company's Coeymans, New York site was used for assembly of the 145th Street Bridge 's new swing span.
The Evens & Howard Fire Brick Company was a manufacturer of fire bricks, sewage pipe and gas retorts in what is now the Cheltenham neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded formally in 1855 as the Cheltenham Fireclay Works and achieved sales as far away as Quebec [ 1 ] and Africa .