A leading-edge briquette machine operates at our Ashburton plant.
This machine compresses kiln dried pine shavings into user-friendly and economical fire briquettes, which tests prove to be New Zealand’s hottest burning manufactured wood-based fuel.
A special die was cast for the piston to punch Niagara’s tree emblem into each briquette as it compresses the 100% plantation grown wood shavings. The whole process is clean, simple and virtually automated.
Extraction pipes throughout the factory move the shavings from planers and profiling machinery to a large storage container, which feeds the briquette machine and systematically produces one briquette every eight seconds.
These are then packed and distributed for the public to purchase at retail outlets.