Refractories for the Glass Industry

DSF Refractories & Minerals are now internationally recognised as one of the major suppliers of refractory products for the glass industry, and have been working with the glass producers for more than 50 years.

A wide range of bonded products are supplied to all sectors of the glass industry; float glass, container glass, tableware, lighting, fibre glass, sodium silicate and special glasses. We have extensive worldwide references including most of the major international glassmaking and furnace design companies, indicating proven long service lives.

We have products used in most of the areas where bonded refractories are suitable, but our particular specialities include:


  • Regenerators - the use of mullite products for regenerator superstructure including crown, target walls and division walls

  • Regenerators - the use of mullite products for port construction

  • Regenerators - the use of mullite materials in rider arches (brick and block construction), adapter courses and lower packing.

  • Melting Furnaces - Subhearth blocks in dense and insulating clay flux.

  • Forehearth Refractories - Glass contact channels in Zirconia Alumina or zirconia free pure alumina or Sillimanite

  • Forehearth Refractories - Superstructure for soda-lime and fibre glass in sillimanite or mullite

  • Forehearth Refractories - Special corrosion resistant high zirconia products for colouring forehearth superstructure

  • Float Glass Specials - Suspended wall shapes for waist wall and charger wall, flat arches

  • Float Glass Tin bath - Bottom blocks for the hot and cold end, roof tiles in cast sillimanite

  • Fibre Glass Melters - superstructure and crown in mullite and fused mullite

  • Oxy- Fuel Melters - superstructure and crown in mullite and fused spinel


DSF is a world renowned supplier to the Glass industry, having extensive references with internationally recognised glassmakers for our products giving long campaigns in the float glass, container glass, fibre glass and other speciality glass industries.


DSF have a long history of supply of high alumina products for the steel and aluminium industries. DSF products are used in electric melting furnaces, steel and iron ladles and tundishes.

We also supply direct reduction kilns, aluminium holding furnaces, coke ovens and carbon bake furnaces.
High fired pure alumina and pure magnesia-alumina spinel materials are both used in carbon black reactors.

These are able to withstand the reducing conditions, thermal shock and very high temperatures associated with the process. They can be supplied in standard brick or complex shapes.

DSF products made to tight dimensional tolerances give excellent performance in rotary cement and lime kilns and preheaters, shaft lime kilns and multihearth calcination furnaces.

We also have products for other rotary kilns producing petroleum coke, activated carbon and calcining minerals.
Products are supplied to a wide variety of heat containment applications including incineration, Sulphur recovery, kiln construction and deck tiles, petrochemical burner blocks, hydrogen atmospheres, multihearth furnaces and many more.


A new company has been formed in China; DSF Refractories (Tianjin) Ltd, A wholly owned subsidiary of the UK company.

Production of refractories has now commenced, for supply to the local Chinese market and for export.



     

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