#Brick July 21
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Today for Day 21 of the 30-Day Ingredient Coach4aday Challenge my item is the popular building material BRICK.
North Carolina produces a lot of different types of items used in home construction including red BRICKS. Making this product in the Tar Heel State needed an introduction and the Northern Colonies provided that in the 1600’s. What the state had was red clay to make the bricks and oyster shells to create lime mortar. Those two raw ingredients allowed for brick homes to appear along the Albemarle Coastal region of the state 400 years ago.
Manufacturing Brick
In 1960 there were some 30 brick plants in North Carolina. Fifty years later in 2010 that number had dwindled down to 13. In 2004 almost 10% of all the nation’s bricks were produced in North Carolina.
If you want to see the process from mining to finished product, check out Triangle Brick video. It is amazing how robotic technology works.
Brick Ingredients
Brick is made of either clay or shale. Great detail can be found on this pdf created by The Brick Industry Association
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