How to produce wood briquettes?
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Wood sawdust briquettes are becoming more and more popular in the global market as an environmentally friendly, clean and high calorific value fuel. Many customers ask us how to produce wood briquettes.
In this article, we will combine Shuliy’s sawdust briquette making equipment with the actual needs of customers to introduce the production process and equipment selection in detail, which will help you put into production quickly and realize the profit.
Raw material requirements for wood briquettes
To produce high-quality sawdust briquettes, we must first start from the raw materials. Common raw materials for wood chip briquette include:
- Wood chips, shavings, sawdust
- Bagasse, bamboo chips, rice husk, peanut shells
- Bark, palm shells and other biomass wastes
Moisture content control at 8%-12% is the best, too wet is not easy to mold, too dry affects the bonding force.


Key equipment: Shuliy wood briquette making machine
The core equipment is called pressa per bricchette per segatura. Its working principle is to press the fine powdered wood chips into regular-shaped fuel rods by high temperature and high pressure. The main advantages include:
- Various molds available
- Good molding with high pressure
- Simple operation and low maintenance
- Single machine or multi-machine combination production line according to the required output

Production steps of wood sawdust briquettes
The complete wood briquettes production process is as follows:
- Raw material crushing: Use wood crusher to turn raw material into fine particles.
- Drying process: Moisture is controlled in the desired range (8%-12%).
- Briquetting: The briquettes are pressed into shape using a Shuliy woodchip briquetting machine.
- (Optional) Carbonization: If carbone di legna di bricchette di segatura is to be produced, it can be further processed in a carbonization oven.
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