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Curiosities and interesting facts about industrial heat, foundry, aluminium and refractory products.

CUPOLA FURNACES

The dictionary defines a cupola as a domed roof, a gun turret or a vertical [...]

ALUMINIUM, Key in the construction of modern aircraft.

A combination of lightness, ressitance and high electrical and thermal conductivity, is the property that [...]

TILTING ROTARY FURNACES

Due to the considerable savings produced during recycling and to the simplicity of the process, [...]

How we can optimize the performance of cupola furnace?

Methods of improving the behavior of cupola: Keep Furnace in optimum regime of operation.Relationship between [...]

ALUMINIUM CAR

Some of the early designs used completely aluminium structure was built by a Norway company [...]

SEA WATER MAGNESIA

During the period between 1915-1941 many attempts were made to develop new production process of [...]

MEDIEVAL IRON FURNACE in GALDAKAO (Spain)

In 2013, a reduction of iron furnace was located in Galdakao (Bizkaia-Spain). This building,is the [...]

ITACOLUMITAS

Itacolumitas are special sandstones which reach this unexpected flexibility due to special interlocking of its [...]

ALUMINIUM, young metal

Aluminium is a relatively young metal in that two hundred years ago no one knew [...]

NEWTON & CASTABLES

If we speak about Sir Isaac Newton, all we go back to our school days [...]

WHAT IS PLASMA?

 Without going any further, the Sun is, in itself, a gigantic plasma, full of atoms [...]