Kingsford is a brand of charcoal briquette used for grilling, along with related products. Established in 1920, the brand is owned by The Clorox Company. Currently, the Kingsford Products Company remains the leading manufacturer of charcoal in the United States, with 80% market share.

It all started in 1919 when Edward G. Kingsford helped Henry Ford procure a stretch of timberland to supply wood for his auto plants. Mr. Ford wondered if all the wood waste generated by his sawmill and plants could be put to better use, and found his answer in a new process for pressing blocks of reconstituted char.

Kingsford® charcoal is made from locally sourced wood, and other natural ingredients. To minimize our environmental impact, we convert more than one million tons of reclaimed wood that would otherwise go to landfill into high-quality briquets every year.

The wood is grinded. And fed into a rotary dryer where it's converted into high consistency char. And the result soft briquettes plant manager Steve Miller says the new briquettes.

Who makes Kingsford® charcoal? Our charcoal is crafted by experts across America, with factories in Kentucky, Missouri, Oregon and West Virginia.

Over the past century, Kingsford has had time to refine their formula. The briquettes have become smaller and more compact. If you're returning to grilling after a long hiatus, you'll find that Kingsford briquettes burn hotter and longer due to the denser material.

The first use of charcoal for purposes other than providing heat was around 30,000 BC when cavemen used it as a pigment for drawing on the walls of caves. Then around 4000 BC came a monumental discovery, probably by accident, when a piece of ore fell into a charcoal fire and began to ooze metal.

The Kingsford Company was formed when E.G. Kingsford, a relative of Ford's, brokered the site selection for Ford's new charcoal manufacturing plant. The company, originally called Ford Charcoal, was renamed in E.G.'s honor.

Kingsford Charcoal is made from charred soft and hardwoods such as pine, spruce, hickory, oak and others depending on which regional manufacturing plant it comes from. That char is then mixed with ground coal and other ingredients to make a charcoal briquette.

A briquette (French: [bʁikɛt]; also spelled briquet) is a compressed block of coal dust or other combustible biomass material (e.g. charcoal, sawdust, wood chips, peat, or paper) used for fuel and kindling to start a fire. The term derives from the French word brique, meaning brick.

Leading the Way. Today, Kingsford converts more than one million tons of wood waste into charcoal briquets every year, making Kingsford the leading manufacturer of charcoal in the United States.

Who makes Kingsford® charcoal? Our charcoal is crafted by experts across America, with factories in Kentucky, Missouri, Oregon and West Virginia.

Charcoal is typically made in earth-mound kilns from lumber and is produced by a low-oxygen, high-temperature chemical reaction called pyrolysis. Burning charcoal generates emissions, but some argue that the negative impact of those emissions is offset by replanting the trees used to make the charcoal.

Kingsford Charcoal is made from charred soft and hardwoods such as pine, spruce, hickory, oak and others depending on which regional manufacturing plant it comes from. That char is then mixed with ground coal and other ingredients to make a charcoal briquette.

Charcoal is a solid fuel used for heating and cooking that is created through the process of carbonisation, which is a process where complex carbon substances - such as wood or other biomass - are broken down through a slow heating process into carbon and other chemical compounds.

Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.