Charcoal has always been used as fuel material. However now, when gas, electricity and oil are commonly used, its production has declined. Unique characteristics of charcoal allow using it in various fields. Just recently it hasn’t been used commonly, but today it attacks more and more attention. Charcoal suits perfectly for domestic use – chargrills, fireplaces, barbeques, as it is smokeless and environmentally friendly. It can also be used in manufacturing industry: nonferrous machine industry (eg. to obtain aluminum, boron, etc.); in the production of pure silicium which is used to get semi-conductors; in chemical industry; metallurgy industry as deoxidant because there is a big amount of carbon in charcoal, in the production of glass, crystal, paint, electrode, plastic and in many other fields. You are welcome to find more information on the fields of charcoal application on on this page — Application of charcoal.

Charcoal for industrial use can be made of lumpy wood waste products of forest procurement, fuelwood and briquette of plant origin, i.e. the off-grade wood and other plant waste can be used as raw materials for charcoal production. In this case the cost of raw material will be minimal and therefore the prime cost of the product will be relatively law comparing to the market price. With high profitability and almost free of charge raw material, you may think that there is a snug in it somewhere. And there are indeed several potential problems there:

• In most cases charcoal is produced with the technology that has been used for several thousands of years. And this is not a metaphor.
• The consumer is willing to get charcoal with high qualitative indexes while the producer wants to get a high active output of commercial charcoal. This is impossible to achieve using old technologies.
• Domestic production is dangerous for the environment which means that it is impossible to use it near labor forces.
• Work conditions of this production are really arduous and dangerous to the service personnel.

There are many other disadvantages of domestic production but let us focus on the solution of the problem.

Greenpower Company has been developing equipment for charcoal manufacture since 2001. In 2009 the new charcoal kiln «UP EURO» was introduced.

The main advantages of the kiln are:

1. Environmentally safe
2. Has high efficiency
3. No elevating mechanisms (the crane-beam, etc.) required
4. High quantitative and qualitative indexes of charcoal
5. Is not a stationary manufacture
6. Possibility of automation by 90%
7. Packing line can be included
8. Two people are required as operating personnel for 1 kiln
9. Low energy consumption
10. Rather low cost
11. Compact size
12. Operating modes of the kiln can be controlled remotely
13. Production costs are minimal
14. The possibility to get additional thermal energy

The «UP EURO» kiln can produce from 30 to 300 tones of high-quality charcoal per month. Moreover the production complex can also include packing line.