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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA western Indiana brick factory that hasn't operated at full capacity since opening during the 2008 financial crisis is ramping up its operations to serve far-off customers while its managers await better economic times.
Boral Bricks' $58 million Vigo County plant was designed to serve Midwestern customers, but the Tribune-Star reports that it's now making bricks for buyers as far south as Alabama and as far north as Canada.
Interim manager Mat Tramel says innovations at the Australian-owned plant allow it to serve distant customers by making bricks at low cost.
The plant employs 30 people, but uses robots and gets most of its power from purified methane gas from a nearby landfill. It also uses clay from nearby sources to make about 65 million bricks a year.
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