Advanced refractories and other ceramics in the steel manufacturing process

When your plant has a daily throughput worth millions, you need to cut downtime wherever possible.

You want reliable supplies of high quality refractories that give you a longer campaign life or reduced scrap yields. You don’t want to stop an operation because a ceramic lining must be replaced earlier than expected. We understand that the cost of that is huge in terms of lost production in the steel manufacturing process – much bigger than the refractory’s original price tag.

For more than 70 years we have worked alongside our customers to reduce those costs and improve efficiency and throughput. During that time we have built up a global network of trusted manufacturing partners. This means we can:

• explore new options when manufacturing technologies develop
• produce refractories in the volumes you need, when you need them.

We have fast access to and close relationships with manufacturing suppliers and with our team of technical advisers we can also develop and procure refractories that:

• resist corrosion and contamination for longer
• need replacing or reconditioning less frequently
• improve throughput and maintain the quality of your end product.

Magnesia carbon bricks, for blast furnaces, converters, electric arc furnaces (EAF); magnesia chrome bricks and alumina refractory bricks.

With decades of hands-on experience, our engineering team will advise on installation and maintenance. Your refractories will perform efficiently the moment they are in place. This film sums up how our breadth of expertise will make your operation more productive.