Barbecue charcoal is widely used for outdoor grilling, catering services, restaurants, and even home cooking. The global demand for high-quality barbecue charcoal has been growing recently, which is an excellent business opportunity.

For manufacturers and entrepreneurs, understanding the crucial role of the BBQ charcoal extruders in modern charcoal production and how to utilize these machines to improve quality, consistency, and profitability is key to entering this market.

How to make BBQ charcoal?

Step 1: Carbonization

The first step in making barbecue charcoal is carbonization. Put raw materials in a carbonization furnace and heated them at temperatures of 400-600°C, under limited oxygen conditions.

This process removes moisture and volatile compounds, leaving behind high-carbon-content charcoal with good value. Shuily offers a variety of carbonization furnaces. You can click the link to view them if you are interested in:

• Horizontal Carbonization Furnace
• Continuous Carbonization Furnace

Step 2: Crushing and grinding

Carbonized charcoal is typically irregularly shaped. To facilitate subsequent pressing and molding for sale, it needs to be crushed into a fine powder. We also provide charcoal grinder machine for this step.

Step 3: Pressing and shaping

After using a binder, the BBQ charcoal extruder compresses the mixture into a uniform shape. Special molds are usually available to provide different finished product shapes, such as spherical, pillow-shaped, oval, or egg-shaped briquettes.

Step 4: Drying the charcoal briquettes

Newly pressed briquettes contain moisture from the binder and the mixing process. Drying not only improves ignition performance and prevents cracking but also enhances storage stability.

Industrial drying methods include drying chambers and conveyor dryers. After drying, the barbecue charcoal briquettes are ready for packaging and sale.

Why use a BBQ charcoal extruder for making ball charcoal?

Compared to selling loose charcoal, compressed charcoal briquettes offer significant commercial advantages. The tightly compressed spherical charcoal briquettes burn more steadily and provide a more even heat distribution.

Their clean appearance and compatibility with automated packaging make them highly attractive to retail buyers. Furthermore, charcoal briquetting machines enable manufacturers to transform low-cost charcoal powder into high-value barbecue fuel products, thereby increasing overall profitability.

How to choose the right briquetting equipment?

When choosing a charcoal briquetting machine, you should first evaluate your factory to ensure if the equipment can meet daily production needs without overloading or experiencing unstable operation.

Furthermore, pay attention to the characteristics of the raw materials, such as its moisture content, particle size, and carbonization quality, because all these can directly affect briquetting performance and equipment selection.

Finally, carefully consider practical factors such as power supply, voltage standards, and installation conditions to ensure the equipment can be smoothly integrated into your existing production line.

The right briquetting machine can not only improve the density and consistency of the briquettes but also ensure stable operation, reduce downtime, and provide long-term production efficiency for commercial barbecue charcoal producers.

If you are unsure which machine is the most suitable for you, please feel free to contact us. Our professional sales staff can provide you with the most reliable advice.