Where are most bricks produced?

Globally brick kilns burn 375,000,000 tonnes of coal per year. For example, in India brick manufacturing is the second highest coal consumer after the steel industry.

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The brick industry in the developing world is a vast, coal burning and polluting industry almost entirely lacking automation. 1,500 billion bricks are produced globally each year, of these 1,300 billion bricks (or 87%) are from Asia.

Rapidly accelerating urbanization at an average rate of 6% p.a, this growth is driving increasing demand for bricks. Solid, fired clay bricks are among the most widely used building materials.

The cost of fuel and its availability is a major concern for brick entrepreneurs.

The labour-intensive exercise of hand moulding clay into bricks (Hand-made bricks), is the predominant way of shaping green bricks in developing countries. In contrast, bricks in the developed world are machine-made, fired in highly automated electricity-dependent tunnel kilns using a skilled labour force. The brick sector in developing countries is generally labour intensive and non-mechanized. The lack of automation is the result of a number of factors, including;

• Availability of a pool of a mainly itinerant, low-cost workforce.
• The workforce is mainly drawn from subsistence farmers and this is their only source of cash income.
• Lack of access to consistent electricity/power supply to run machinery.
• The extremely high capital cost of establishing mechanized kilns and the resultant extended payback periods for their owners in what is a free enterprise system in most countries

GLOBAL BRICK INDUSTRY PRODUCTION

Country Production % No. Billion P.A. China 66.67% 1,000 India 13.33% **200 Pakistan 3.00% 45 Vietnam 1.67% 25 Bangladesh 1.13% 17 Nepal 0.40% 6 Rest of Asia 0.47% 7 Total Asia 86.67% 1,300 USA 0.53% 8 UK 0.37% 4 Australia 0.13% 2 Rest of World 12.40% 186 Total Rest of World (Incl. Latin America) 13.33% 200

Global Brick Production

100.00% 1,500

Source: Ellen Baum &#; Session 1, Mexico & India: GKSPL Estiate, Pakistan: Estimate based on CIWCE report Lahore, Bangladesh & China: ESMAP & World Bank Report, Vietnam: Ministry of Construction Vietnam

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* Figures are based on a very conservative 300,000 brick kilns, today there are more than 500,000.  In India alone it is estimated there are up to 280,000 kilns and the industry is still expanding.

** Increased to 250-300 Billion in

The earliest discovery of bricks dates back to BCE, a construction made out of the mud in the Middle East and South Asia. A brick is a building material often rectangle in shape made of concrete materials, lime clay, and sand. Bricks are commonly in use in masonry construction in the making of walls, pavements and other elements. We can base production of bricks on types, sizes and how they are manufactured. There exist three types of bricks according to their manufacturing: fired bricks, non-fired bricks, and chemically made bricks.

Top Brick Exporters

China

China is the lead exporter of bricks in the world incurring about 37.2 million dollars of export value annually. Even though brick might not be among the top exports in China, the product generates an estimate of 7.51 billion dollars from all its sales yearly. Production and exportation of bricks dated to 3,000 years ago when China was still developing. Up to date the country exports vast tones of bricks to other nations as well as use the bricks in their construction.

Spain

A lot of companies in Spain are investing in brick production and exportation as the country comes second in the exportation of bricks in the world and therefore more opportunities are opening up for the manufacturers. As such, the nation earns 16.3 million dollars annually from bricks.

India

The brick industry is growing fast in India due to the fast economic growth we see in the country, and as such, India produces about 250 billion brick yearly to be able to meet the growing demand. The nation gets 12.2 million dollars from the brick industry annually.

Uses of Bricks

Bricks have a variety of uses apart from the common one, which is a construction purpose. Builders use bricks in the construction of walls and pavements in most parts of the world but this has been on the decline as from the 20th century most constructions of buildings is out of concrete blocks and other materials. The crystal industry uses bricks to line blast furnace especially those that have silica. The use of brick for construction has been declining over the years due to its inability to withstand substantial forces like earthquakes. Production and exportation of bricks are currently not on the rise because most people prefer concrete materials and as such resulting in a decline in its usage compared to the 18th and 19th century. Some countries like China are still manufacturing tones of bricks and export to another part of the world.

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