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Gallery

The plant, the material, the burn.

Photographed on our own line in Palladam, Tamil Nadu, India — raw shell charcoal through pressing, drying, packing and despatch. Hover any frame for context.

Tractor loader moving jumbo bags of coconut shell charcoal in the plant yard — Jumbo bags of shell charcoal moved into the yard

Flames rising off hexagonal coconut shell briquettes in a grill — Flames rising off hexagonal briquettes

Operator watching briquettes cross the screening conveyor — Watching the screening conveyor for undersize

Branded Flareon 25 kg charcoal sacks stacked in the covered warehouse — Branded 25 kg sacks stacked in the covered warehouse

Milled coconut shell carbon powder — Milled coconut shell carbon, close up

Operator running the hydraulic briquette press at the Palladam plant — The hydraulic briquette press mid-run

Shisha cubes glowing red on a lighting grill — Cubes glowing on a lighting grill

Operator filling a 25 kg Flareon sack at the weighing hopper — Filling a 25 kg sack at the weighing hopper

Printed retail Flareon barbecue charcoal bags stacked for export — Printed retail bags stacked for export

Freshly pressed pillow briquettes laid out on a drying tray — Pillow briquettes laid out to dry

Open sacks of coconut shell charcoal chips and carbon powder — Shell charcoal chips and milled carbon, side by side

Dried briquettes dropping from the screen onto the transfer belt — Dried briquettes dropping to the transfer belt

Flareon coconut charcoal burning down to an even ember bed — An even ember bed — extra-long, steady heat

Workers grading fresh briquettes into drying crates — Fresh briquettes graded into drying crates

Warehouse aisle between stacked charcoal sacks awaiting despatch — Warehouse aisle on the despatch side

Screening line running inside the plant — The screening line running late in the shift

Plant team working the briquette press line — Press line crew during a production shift

Four coconut charcoal cubes fully lit on a foiled shisha bowl — Fully lit cubes on a foiled bowl

Operator levelling a tray of green briquettes before drying — Levelling a tray before it goes to the yard

Wall of packed charcoal sacks ready for container loading — A wall of packed sacks awaiting a container

Quality check on the screening bed mid-run — Quality check on the screening bed

Carbon conveyor feeding the press beside stacked drying crates — Carbon conveyor feeding the press

Close-up of glowing Flareon briquettes at full heat — Briquettes holding heat at full burn

Flareon plant team lined up in front of the Palladam facility — The Palladam plant team outside the facility

Plant office building and gate at the Flareon facility in Palladam — The plant office and gate at Palladam

Worker handing a sack of carbon up to the mixer while a colleague looks on — Carbon going into the mixer

Rows of pressed briquettes drying across the covered drying hall floor — Pressed briquettes drying under cover

Worker standing on stacked jumbo bags of shell charcoal as a tractor loader works behind — Jumbo bags of shell charcoal in the yard

Operator watching freshly pressed briquettes travel along the press feed chute — Briquettes coming off the press

Worker filling a sack under the hopper at the Palladam plant — Filling sacks at the hopper

Worker filling a Flareon branded sack in front of stacked charcoal sacks — Filling a Flareon sack in the warehouse

Flareon delivery truck and forklift seen through the open yard gate at the plant — The yard gate and the Flareon delivery truck

Operator and crew at the screening deck next to the briquette press — The screening deck beside the press

Two workers tipping crates of pressed briquettes onto the open drying floor — Briquettes laid out on the drying floor

Sunset through a tree-lined avenue beside the Palladam plant — Casuarina avenue at the edge of the plant

Worker at the round mixing pan with the mould box and scale beside it — Mixing pan and mould box

Two men loading Flareon charcoal from sacks into clay pots at dusk — Flareon charcoal loaded into clay pots

Wide view of the press line with drying racks behind the operators — The press line mid-shift

Worker holding a sack open under the bagging hopper — Bagging at the hopper

Mixing crew gathered around the round pan with the scale in the foreground — The mixing crew at work

Clay pots of charcoal being lit with smoke rising beside a Flareon sack — Charcoal being lit in clay pots

Tractor loader lifting a jumbo bag of shell charcoal in the plant yard — Tractor loader lifting a jumbo bag

Operator sorting briquettes beside the press with racks behind — Sorting off the press line

Supervisor in a green helmet writing up records at a desk in the plant office — Production records at the plant office

Workers at the mixing pan beside the mould box inside the plant — The moulding station

Incline conveyor running through the processing hall at the plant — Incline conveyor in the processing hall

Chicks gathered around a clay pot on a brooder floor — Chicks around a charcoal pot brooder

Worker stepping up to tip a sack of carbon into the mixer — Emptying a sack into the mixer

Wide view of two workers at the mixer bay with the control panel behind — The mixer bay, wide view

Worker sorting freshly pressed briquettes on the screening deck — Sorting briquettes on the screen

Worker reaching over the screen to check briquettes by hand — Checking the screen by hand

Wide view of the press floor with drying racks, the press and crew at work — The press floor, wide view

Wall-mounted dry powder fire extinguisher with fire-fighting certificate and how-to-use chart — Fire safety point at the plant

Covered drying hall with its floor covered edge to edge in pressed briquettes — The full drying hall

Pile of burning briquettes with flames, embers and a white ash coat — Briquettes burning down to white ash

Worker tipping Flareon charcoal from a wire basket into a row of clay pots beside a Flareon sack — Loading charcoal into clay pots

Meet the team

The people behind every container

Plant crew, supervisors and management at our Palladam facility in Tamil Nadu, the hands that press, dry, pack and load every order.

The Flareon team — plant crew, supervisors and management — lined up in hard hats outside the Palladam facility