Category Archives: Technical articles

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

What is Aluminum Dross? Understanding a Critical Byproduct in the Recycling Chain

Formation, classification, and composition of aluminum dross: laying the groundwork for understanding its value and [...]

Key Tips for Effective Refractory Lining Maintenance in Industrial Furnaces Without a Summer Shutdown

When a summer shutdown is not planned, preventive and corrective maintenance without full stoppage becomes [...]

MAPATCH: Efficient Sacrificial Mass for Steel Ladles

At INSERTEC, we continue to develop refractory solutions that enhance plant efficiency while ensuring high [...]

Aluminium dross recycling: overview and key technical challenges

This article kicks off a technical series focused on aluminium dross recycling, covering its generation, [...]

SOLGEL castables

INSERTEC presents a new generation of refractory solutions for many applications: SOLGEL castables.

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 [...]