California firm recycles coal fly ash to make bricks.

California firm recycles coal fly ash to make bricks. Recycled coal fly ash made from the by products of a Power Plant will be used for making these bricks. The company also will be creating new jobs in the processing.

CalStar Cement associates are planning on starting production with zero emissions using WE Energies fly ash coals by product from its Oak Creek Power Plant.

This brick is much stronger than the conventional brick and they are far more environmental friendly. The brick is neither made from cement nor clay elements.
This is the first fly ash brick manufacturing facility of its kind in the country.

Luke Pustejovsky CalStar's vice president of business development. The reasons they chose We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant in the state of Wisconsin is because of their proposal submission and screening their offers that were made. They screened them by their utilities for fly ash volume, quality and proximity to
location of their manufacturing plant. There were a total of 35 applicants from different Midwestern states who applied. We Energies were chosen because their offer was the best proposal made.

The company is from California's Silicon Valley that will set up their first manufacturing fly ash brick producing plant. Our economy is in transition and this is prove that its one of the turning points of the future of manufacturing
with using recyclable materials such as fly ash from power plants. The company is also creating new jobs.
This material is considered subtainable for construction. Their companies start up capital expenditures will run around $8 million compared to other brick start up companies of $55 million quite a jump in cost comparing to the savings. There will be setup 25 distrubuters in the chicago market.
Bricks will come in natural buff color of cream City tint found in this area plus up to 8 or 10 other tinted colors.
In the development lab there could be in the near future other by products created from fly ash.
This is a good thing.