Category Archives: Technical articles

Technical articles on foundry and aluminium recycling plants, industrial furnaces, refractory products and everything related to the industrial heat sector.

Sintering: a critical art in the lining of industrial furnaces

This week we completed the sintering process of a 20-tonne induction furnace in Saudi Arabia, [...]

Insetag: Refractory solutions for induction furnaces

Insetag family has been developed at the same time as our customers changed their production [...]

Drying, an indispensable process for linings with castables

Drying is an indispensable process after the use of concretes that are mixed with liquids, [...]

Comparative Regenerative vs Oxi-Gas Burners

Working process, energy consumption, complexity, maintenance...: we analyse and compare two of the most interesting [...]

How refractory can help foundries with energy savings

Choosing the right material, standardising processes, using automated systems...: how refractory can help foundries with [...]

BAUXAL PROJECT – Technical and economical optimisation

REFINAL agglomeration process establishes along with the sintering process the basis to obtain critical properties [...]

IFI ROBOTIC PROCESS – GARBI 0A1

Specially designed for cleaning and skimming operations in melting towers. Its robotic arm tears the [...]

WORKING WITH ZINC COATED SCRAP IN CRUCIBLE INDUCTION FURNACES

Steel has its fiercest enemy in Aluminum. Steelmakers are reacting to the push of this [...]

Monograph: Slabbing and melting solutions for high metal recovery

In the competitive aluminium recycling market, scrap requires efficient melting and descaling systems to achieve [...]

Article | A world with Silica vol. 4

When a coreless induction furnace is lined with a dry silica mass, even though the [...]

Monographic: aluminium wastes from foundry

The recovery of metal waste in aluminium foundry is key to improving the cost of [...]

Reverberatory furnace: how to protect the burners?

REVERBERATORY FURNACE / HOW TO PROTECT THE BURNERS The ceramic blocks of the burners are [...]

Article | A world with Silica vol. 2: good practice for demolition of linings

In the series of short articles we will be presenting monthly in our NewsLetter, we [...]

ARTICLE | A WORLD WITH SILICA VOL. 1

Silicon accompanies humanity. From the Neolithic to the electronic revolution, it has shown its usefulness, [...]

Use of precast shape for the sill of a reverberatory furnace

After almost 2 years of operation and 130,000 MT, the cladding has undergone minimal alterations. [...]