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Sioux City Brick has completed construction of its third state-of-the-art manufacturing plant at Adel Iowa. This plant will be fired with petroleum coke (Petcoke) and will be primarily for residential products. On this page we will post Plant Commissioning related photos so you can follow the process of this exciting project.

		10-2-06 Robots Come to Life as Power is Applied.
		10-2-06 Robot Gripping Heads are now Attached and Ready for Brick.
		10-4-06 First Brick are Cut on Petcoke Plant Setter.
		10-4-06 Brick Progress to spacing Belt and then Facer-Stacker at Left.
		10-4-06 Robots Grip Only 1 Brick wide at a Time to minimize Distortion.
		10-4-06 After Being Spread & Placed on Marshalling Belt - The Builders Special Brick are Gripped by the Robots (only 1 brick wide at a time to minimize distortion).
		10-4-06 First Brick are Set !!.
		10-4-06 Setting Continues.
		10-4-06 Top View of First Sets.
		10-4-06 Full Kiln Car Width with First Sets.
		10-2-06 Packaging Machine Electrical Room is Constructed out of Adel Granite Red Utilities.
		10-2-06 Petcoke Grinding, Drying, and Storage Building Takes Shape.
		10-2-06 Scrubber Stack is Readied for Installation.
		10-2-06 Scrubber Baghouse Superstructure is Installed.
		10-2-06 Scrubber Reactant Tanks at Right Baghouse in Center Petcoke Processing Bldg at Left.
		10-2-06 View of Petcoke Making Area Showing Scrap Conveyors Returning to - Walled Off - Clay and Additive Room.
		10-2-06 Colorant Platform is Built - Extruder is Underneath.