What Does Brickmaking Mean?

A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale. Usually a brickworks is located on a clay bedrock, often with a quarry for clay on site.

What is the definition of a brickmaker?

1 : one that conducts research in processing clays and set up improved methods of manufacturing and using brick. 2 : a worker who tends a brick-molding machine.

What is a brick industry?

The brick industry in the developing world is a vast, coal burning and polluting industry almost entirely lacking automation. 1,500 billion bricks are produced globally each year, of these 1,300 billion bricks (or 87%) are from Asia.