Category Archives: Technical articles
Technical articles on foundry and aluminium recycling plants, industrial furnaces, refractory products and everything related to the industrial heat sector.
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 [...]
Jun
MAPATCH: Efficient Sacrificial Mass for Steel Ladles
At INSERTEC, we continue to develop refractory solutions that enhance plant efficiency while ensuring high [...]
Jun
Aluminium dross recycling: overview and key technical challenges
This article kicks off a technical series focused on aluminium dross recycling, covering its generation, [...]
Jun
SOLGEL castables
INSERTEC presents a new generation of refractory solutions for many applications: SOLGEL castables.
Apr
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, [...]
Jan
Insetag: Refractory solutions for induction furnaces
Insetag family has been developed at the same time as our customers changed their production [...]
Sep
Drying, an indispensable process for linings with castables
Drying is an indispensable process after the use of concretes that are mixed with liquids, [...]
Aug
Comparative Regenerative vs Oxi-Gas Burners
Working process, energy consumption, complexity, maintenance...: we analyse and compare two of the most interesting [...]
May
How refractory can help foundries with energy savings
Choosing the right material, standardising processes, using automated systems...: how refractory can help foundries with [...]
Nov
BAUXAL PROJECT – Technical and economical optimisation
REFINAL agglomeration process establishes along with the sintering process the basis to obtain critical properties [...]
Apr
IFI ROBOTIC PROCESS – GARBI 0A1
Specially designed for cleaning and skimming operations in melting towers. Its robotic arm tears the [...]
Mar
WORKING WITH ZINC COATED SCRAP IN CRUCIBLE INDUCTION FURNACES
Steel has its fiercest enemy in Aluminum. Steelmakers are reacting to the push of this [...]
Nov
Monograph: Slabbing and melting solutions for high metal recovery
In the competitive aluminium recycling market, scrap requires efficient melting and descaling systems to achieve [...]
Oct
Article | A world with Silica vol. 4
When a coreless induction furnace is lined with a dry silica mass, even though the [...]
Aug
Monographic: aluminium wastes from foundry
The recovery of metal waste in aluminium foundry is key to improving the cost of [...]
Jul