Briquettes
Some of the milled peat produced was used in the manufacture of Peat Briquettes. Milled peat has  moisture content of 50%. In the factory, which we can see from our school playground, it was dried to 10%. It was very heavily pressed into the briquettes we are all familiar with. It takes two and a half tonnes of peat to make one tonne of briquettes. The dried milled peat was compressed into briquettes at a pressure of 5 tons per square inch.
The Briquette Factory is now closed and is not producing briquettes anymore.    

By; Jane Scally.
 

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