Production facilities often generate side streams in the form of chips, grinding sludge or other particles. To date, at least until now, disposing of them is no option, and finding the optimum dosage of water and wheat-based binder for briquetting the raw materials poses a time-consuming and costly task. With the Crespotec® Compaction Optimiser (CCO), C&D Technical Applications now offers a new type of software to calculate the optimum addition quantities. The dosage can be kept low, while briquette properties are optimised and costs reduced.