Near the end of the processing line at the Brazeau Collieries, heated petroleum asphalt was combined with crushed coal to form a dough-like mixture. The mixing and volume of the material was controlled at various points, including here just above one of the 4 gravity-fed presses. The hot mix would be agitated and fed down, where it was compressed into solid briquettes by the rotating stainless steel forms. If the demand was up, each of these 4 press ran 24x7, but today there is nobody at the wheel.