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Brick making machine from China

Three different machines are sold as a brick making machine, and a quote for one tells you nothing about the other two.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 1 October 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Which process the quote is for

A vacuum extruder pushes wet clay through a die, then the bricks are dried and fired. An earth block press compacts stabilised soil with no kiln. A concrete brick press vibrates a cement mix onto pallets. Ask which one the offer describes.

Extruder stages and motor split

Double-stage extruders de-air the clay in one stage and press it in the other, so listings give two motor ratings. Ask for both, and the vacuum the pump holds under load.

Press force for earth blocks

Manual lever presses and hydraulic presses rated in tonnes share one name. Density follows force divided by block face area, so ask for force and mould size together.

What the plant needs after forming

For fired bricks the cutter, dryer and kiln are separate purchases. Ask for every item after the extruder, each marked in scope or not.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

A laboratory report on your raw material: clay plasticity, or soil grading and the cement or lime share you will add.
The brick you sell: size, perforation, fired or unfired, and its standard, such as EN 771-1 for clay masonry units.
Daily output and shifts, so extruder, dryer and kiln are sized to one figure.
The fuel available for drying and firing.
Voltage, frequency and the load your supply can take.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Have your own clay or soil formed on the offered machine, on video, with the vacuum gauge in view.	Bricks leave the die or mould without surface tearing and the gauge holds the vacuum written in the offer.
Weigh and measure 30 green bricks from one counted run.	Weight and length stay inside a spread agreed beforehand.
For fired bricks, fire samples and send them to an independent laboratory.	Compressive strength and water absorption meet what you will declare under EN 771-1.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity naming 2006/42/EC, or Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 from 20 January 2027, plus 2014/35/EU and 2014/30/EU.
Auger and die drawings with material and hardness, since sand in clay wears both.
Wiring diagrams and motor data for each stage.

The one people forget. The kiln file. A kiln is combustion equipment and a building works item, and your permit authority will ask for burner and emission data the machine supplier may never have prepared.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You want hollow concrete blocks or solid cement bricks in large numbers.

A concrete block making machine, with no kiln involved.

You plan unfired earth blocks for load-bearing walls in the EU.

Ask your building control first. The EN 771 masonry series has no part for unfired earth blocks, so the press may not give you a saleable product.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 17Seventeen listings for clay brick vacuum extruders, checked October 2026, advertised from US$1,250 to US$153,000 per unit. These are asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 2Two of those listings, checked October 2026, stated about 8,000 bricks an hour, one on 55+110 kW motors and one stating 8,000 to 11,000 on 75+132 kW.
Listings · 3Three interlocking earth or clay block press listings, checked October 2026, ranged from US$3,300 for a small hydraulic unit to US$30,000 for an automatic press rated at 200 tonnes.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Concrete block making machine. Choose it if your product is hollow cement blocks and you want no dryer or kiln.
Roof tile making machine. Choose it if you want to sell roofing rather than walling from the same yard.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Construction page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

What is the best brick making machine from China for a small plant?+

The one that matches your material. Clay needs an extruder, dryer and kiln; stabilised soil needs a press and a curing yard. Test your own material before comparing prices.

What belongs on a brick making machine factory audit?+

Whether the factory machines and hard-faces its own augers and dies, and whether it has ever built a complete dryer and kiln.

What does EU compliance mean for a brick making machine?+

The machine needs a Declaration of Conformity under the machinery, low voltage and EMC rules. The bricks need their own declaration of performance; the machine's CE marking does not cover them.

How do I import a brick making machine to the EU?+

You are usually the importer. Your name goes on the machine or its documents, and you check the declaration matches the serial plates.

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