Refractory Construction

We are the leading international experts in the design, installation and maintenance of refractory linings. Our experience and technology are unrivalled. Our value proposition includes the provision of services for the complete life cycle of the refractory equipment, end-to-end, starting with engineering, material procurement and installation right up to maintenance and repair, directed at maximising efficiency and useful life.

DETAIL OF ACTIVITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES

Offering our clients one single point of responsibility allows us to achieve the highest quality standards for each installation whether it is construction, emergency repair or planned shutdown. Our work in often highly critical plant components requires strict adherence to safety requirements and safety procedures.

We are your partner for any relining, refurbishment or upgrade of your plant even after decades of operation.

Our services include, among others:

• Structural design and detailed engineering
• Material procurement
• Production of refractory materials and prefabricated parts
• Thermal calculations
• Project planning and management
• QA/QC
• Certified safety management systems
• On-site installation
• Detailed project documentation including installation instructions
• Supervision
• Inspection and maintenance
• Emergency and shutdown repairs
• Demolition and disposal

Industries served:

Energy and Environment

Chemical and Petrochemical

Iron and Steel

Cement, Lime, Ceramics, Glass and Other Non-Ferrous

Energy and Environment

We offer our comprehensive range of products and services in particular for:

• Waste-to-energy boilers, coal and lignite fired boilers, biomass power plants
  • stationary fluidized bed furnaces and circulating fluidized bed furnaces
  • grate incinerators
  • cyclones
  • flue gas recirculating and other ducts
  • ash hoppers
  • hot gas generators
• Incinerators for solid, liquid or hazardous waste
• Special test furnaces
• Rotary kilns with post combustion chambers

Our DOMINION Tile System offers excellent advantages compared to castables in WtE boilers and CFB plants:

• Tried and tested for more than 10 years
• Long lifetime system
• Excellent heat transfer and low slag build on walls
• Fast and safe installation
• Optimal expansion
• > 3 years warranty on request

Chemical and Petrochemical

We offer our comprehensive range of products and services in particular for:

• Primary steam reformers either with brick lining or castable lining or ceramic fiber lining or combination of all three linings.
• Secondary reformers either with brick lining or with castable lining up to process licensor
• Waste heat boiler (PG-Cooler) and steam superheater either with brick lining or castable lining
• Auto-thermal reformers
• Boilers
• Superheaters
• Combustion chambers
• Furnaces
• Reactors
• Gasifiers
• POX reactors
• Sulphur recovery units
• Claus combustion chambers
• Single cell or double cell cracking furnaces
• Heater pyrolysis furnaces
• Fluid Catalytic Crackers (FCC)
• Flexicokes
• Catofin reactors

Iron and Steel

We offer our comprehensive range of products and services in particular for:

• Blast furnace
  • Engineering and procurement (mechanical and refractory)
  • Revamping
  • Taphole and hearth repairs
  • Stack repairs including platform system, cooling and shotcrete
  • Robot shooter

• Hot blast system
  • Hot blast stove; hot blast main; bustle pipe and mixing pot
  • Engineering and procurement (mechanical and refractory)
  • Newbuilding
  • Demolition
  • Cold repair & Hot repair
  • Endoscopic services including reporting
  • Ceramic welding repairs
  • Hot cutting of mechanical pipes including refractories
  • Compensators

• Coke oven battery
  • Engineering and procurement (mechanical and refractory)
  • New building
  • Through wall repair / end flue repair
  • Tunnel and regenerator repairs
  • Oven roof repairs
  • Maintenance works
  • Ceramic welding

• Pig iron mixers, torpedo ladles, converters, electric arc furnaces, runner systems, tundish, Midrex, etc.

Other industries: Cement, Lime, Ceramics, Glass and Other Non-Ferrous

We offer our comprehensive range of products and services in particular for:

• Cement, lime, ceramics
  • Rotary kilns
  • Shaft kilns
  • Heat exchangers
  • Coolers
  • Cyclones
  • Ducts

• Glass (installation of new linings, maintenance, cold and hot repairs, inspections, material procurement)
  • Float glass furnaces
  • Fibre glass furnaces
  • Tin baths
  • Container glass furnaces
  • Hot repairs at crowns, front-(back-)walls, overcoating at soldier blocks, ports
  • Hot repairs at regenerator chambers like changing of cruciform bricks, crown-repairs
  • Ceramic welding at furnaces and regenerators

• NF metals
  • Smelters
  • Calciners
  • Kilns
  • Fluidized bed plants

• Aluminium
  • Anode baking furnaces
  • Melting furnaces
  • Kilns
  • Ladles