Category Archives: Did you know?
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 [...]
Aug
ALUMINIUM, Key in the construction of modern aircraft.
A combination of lightness, ressitance and high electrical and thermal conductivity, is the property that [...]
May
TILTING ROTARY FURNACES
Due to the considerable savings produced during recycling and to the simplicity of the process, [...]
May
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 [...]
Mar
ALUMINIUM CAR
Some of the early designs used completely aluminium structure was built by a Norway company [...]
Mar
SEA WATER MAGNESIA
During the period between 1915-1941 many attempts were made to develop new production process of [...]
Feb
MEDIEVAL IRON FURNACE in GALDAKAO (Spain)
In 2013, a reduction of iron furnace was located in Galdakao (Bizkaia-Spain). This building,is the [...]
Dec
ITACOLUMITAS
Itacolumitas are special sandstones which reach this unexpected flexibility due to special interlocking of its [...]
Oct
ALUMINIUM, young metal
Aluminium is a relatively young metal in that two hundred years ago no one knew [...]
Sep
NEWTON & CASTABLES
If we speak about Sir Isaac Newton, all we go back to our school days [...]
Jun
WHAT IS PLASMA?
Without going any further, the Sun is, in itself, a gigantic plasma, full of atoms [...]
Apr