Bio Bricks in the Mid-West

[Buck Snowden]

I know this may not interest all of you but I thought it might be useful information to a few.
A little over a year ago we started up a company in N.E.Kansas to manufacture bio bricks.
This came as a result of many months of research . We originally looked into pellets but there were so many new start ups in our area that we decided to go where no one had gone before.
I looked into the various types of machines and decided to go with a European design.
We flew back to CT. to visit with Thomas Engel, who seems to " The Man " when it comes to
"Bio Bricks". After a quick tour and a brief meeting ,I knew it was a good fit for us. We went to market late last year and everyone liked the bricks. This year we've partnered with a hardware distributor that covers 12 states, and so far this year Colorado is our hot spot.
All this from a guy with a wood furnace and two pellet stove who use to cut and split 3 cords and buy 5 skids of pellets a year. I haven't had fired up my chainsaws for 2 years and my back thanks me.
I have added a link to a blog site that may offer more info.

http://woody-cellulose-biofuel.blogspot.com

 

[Hiram Maxim]

Do you have any distributors in Michigan?

My friend and I wanted to try some but there seems to be nothing in this region!

PS: Congrats with your new venture. :cheese:

 

[Buck Snowden]

Sorry ,western Ill. is a far as we can get.
But early in my research I can accross a guy in MI who was selling and or manufacturing bricks.Not sure of his location ,I think he had a saw mill or lumber yard , if I remember right.
They had a maple leaf and a recycling logo stamped on the brick.
I bought some through ebay last year and tried them, good bricks .
Buck

Interlochen Mi ,was where he was located .

 

[Cutter]

Howdy Buck. I live down West of Lawrence and am glad to see someone making a buck from our native timbers. Way to go and best of luck to you.
Brad

 

[Buck Snowden]

Our early thoughts were to use switchgrass .
we tried fescue fines and pecan hulls but the produced a less than desireable brick.
the grass smelled like a trash fire and the pecan hulls were werew to fine to hold together.
We also made bricks out of cardboard and some paper lineholes.

In the end sawdust was our simplest solution.

the lab test results on the BTU value were averaging 8500 , it didn't matter if it was pine or hardwood. the ash content was 3 tenths of 1 percent.

 

[Hiram Maxim]

(broken link removed)

Sawmill Bill Lumber co.
18657 US 31 South
Interlochen, MI 49643


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