Carthagobrique makes the decision of investing again in Tunisia
Carthagobrique, a branch of the Poulina Group dedicated to the manufacture of heavy clay products, decided once again to reinforce its position in the heavy clay sector and Equipceramic was newly assigned to develop the project.
The contracts between the two parties were signed the last month of January and both companies are determined to make all the efforts to conclude the works by the end of 2023.
The project is aimed at building three production units, each one with a capacity of 800 t/day. Two of these three factories will be twin units and they will be in Tadjerouine, in the west area of Tunisia and the third one will be built in Jabel el Ouest, next to the factory also owned by Carthagobrique with a production capacity of 1200 t/day that was also built by Equipceramic.
Factories will be equipped of a robot-based system to collect wet ware and load it on dryer trays as well as to introduce dryer cars into the dryer. This same system will be used to take dryer cars out the dryer and to unload dry products to lead them to the setting station.
Products will be set on kiln cars by a set of robots.
The kiln will be a Gaudí type because its qualities from the point of view of quality and consumption have been widely proven.
The fired ware unloading line will also be equipped of robots to make the different operations simpler and it will consist of two parallel lines to ensure a better flexibility in work.