Biomass
- Pressed from
- Agricultural and forestry residue, pressed without binder.
- Suited to
- General heating and process steam.
Energy & heating
Briquettes
Biomass, sawdust, charcoal and industrial grades — for cooking, heating, boilers and furnaces.
4,500
kcal per kilogram, at the top of the range
< 5%
ash left in the grate
50 kg
to a bag, or loose by the tonne
Same day
despatch from stock at Sipcot
Why briquettes
Cheaper to burn, and far less to clear out afterwards
A briquette is sawdust and wood scrap pressed hard enough that the wood's own lignin binds it. Nothing is added, and nothing needs to be.
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More heat per kilogram
Denser and drier than firewood, so a boiler reaches temperature on less fuel and holds it for longer between charges.
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Under five per cent ash
The grate is cleared on a Sunday rather than midweek, and there is far less to cart away at the end of it.
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Stacks and stores
Uniform, dry and bagged at 50 kg. It does not rot, it does not attract insects, and it takes up less room than loose wood.
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Made from waste
The raw material is what a sawmill sweeps up. Burning it releases only the carbon the tree took in.
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A price that holds
Firewood swings with the season and the weather. Our input does not, so a quoted rate stays a quoted rate.
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Delivered locally
Ranipet, Vellore, Arcot and Chennai, by the lorry load or by the bag, from stock we hold at Sipcot.
The grades
Four kinds, and what each one is for
They are not interchangeable. What suits a bakery oven will not suit a furnace that runs for a week, and the cheapest is not always the one that costs least to fire.
Sawdust
- Pressed from
- Kiln-dry sawmill sawdust, bound by the wood's own lignin.
- Suited to
- Boilers and kilns, the cheapest way to raise steam.
Charcoal
- Pressed from
- Carbonised before pressing, so it burns without smoke.
- Suited to
- Cooking and heating where smoke is not acceptable.
Industrial grade
- Pressed from
- Denser, with a hole through the centre to draw air.
- Suited to
- Boilers and furnaces fired once and left to run.
What we stock
Held at Sipcot, despatched the same day
Specification
Side by side
The figures we quote against, and the ones a boiler house will ask for.
| Figure | Sawdust Briquettes | Wood Scrap Briquettes |
|---|---|---|
| Calorific value | 4,000 - 4,500 kcal/kg | 4,200 – 4,600 kcal/kg |
| Moisture | under 10% | under 10% |
| Ash | under 5% | under 4% |
| Diameter | 90 mm | 90 mm |
| Packing | 50 kg bags or loose | 50 kg bags or loose |
Tell us what you burn
Give us your monthly tonnage and what you are firing now, and we will come back with a price and a delivery date.