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