Belden Brick

Unfired bricks are stacked before being dried at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Fired bricks are blended, a process where slightly different color bricks are mixed together before packaging, at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Fired bricks are blended, a process where slightly different color bricks are mixed together before packaging, at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Fired bricks are blended, a process where slightly different color bricks are mixed together before packaging, at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

An employee carries fired bricks which didn't pass quality control during blending, a process where slightly different color bricks are mixed together before packaging, at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Emery Yoder pulls fired bricks from a stack inside a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Emery Yoder

Emery Yoder, left, and Paul Baber pull fired bricks from stacks inside a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Emery Yoder; Paul Baber

Paul Baber pulls fired bricks from stacks inside a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Paul Baber

Paul Baber pulls fired bricks from stacks inside a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Paul Baber

Emery Yoder, left, Paul Baber, center, and Blaine Krebs pull fired bricks from stacks inside a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Emery Yoder; Paul Baber; Blaine Krebs

Emery Yoder, left, Paul Baber, center, and Blaine Krebs pull fired bricks from stacks inside a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Emery Yoder; Paul Baber; Blaine Krebs

Lance Felgenhauer, top left, and Arlen Beachy, top right, arrange unfired bricks as Roy Yoder, left, and JT Cunningham unload them from a rolling cart inside a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Lance Felgenhauer; Arlen Beachy; Roy Yoder; JT Cunningham

JT Cunningham, left, throws unfired bricks to Arlen Beachy as they prepare a beehive kiln for firing at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Arlen Beachy; JT Cunningham

Arlen Beachy prepares to catch unfired bricks as he stacks them inside a beehive kiln prior to firing at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Arlen Beachy

Roy Yoder, right, throws unfired bricks to Lance Felgenhauer, unseen, as Arlen Beachy stacks bricks in the background inside a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Roy Yoder; Arlen Beachy

Lance Felgenhauer, top left, and Arlen Beachy, top right, arrange unfired bricks as Kevin Wright, left, and JT Cunningham unload them from a rolling cart inside a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Lance Felgenhauer; Arlen Beachy; Kevin Wright; JT Cunningham

Kevin Wright picks up two unfired bricks as they are stacked inside a beehive kiln prior to firing at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Kevin Wright

A cart full of green bricks is moved toward a beehinve kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Jim Syler, right, and Chuck Snyder cut material at the end of an extrusion machine as bricks are made at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Jim Syler; Chuck Snyder

Unfired bricks are sorted prior to drying during manufacturing at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

A rack of unfired bricks are loaded onto a transport cart before being loaded into a beehive kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Unfired bricks dry at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Fired bricks cool as they exit a tunnel kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

A cube of bricks wrapped in shipping bands move on a conveyor at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Unfired bricks sit in a stack inside a beehinve kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Setting sand covers the surface of fired bricks inside a beehinve kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Fired bricks sit inside a beehinve kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Unfired bricks bearing a Belden marking sit in a staging area prior to being fired at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Wires cut a slug of unfired bricks during manufacturing at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

Fired bricks cool as they exit a tunnel kiln at The Belden Brick Co., in Sugarcreek, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, July 28, 2011. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg