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18 May 2012   DSF Mick Cundy Memorial Golf Competition

This years Mick Cundy Memorial Golf Competition was held at Shirland Golf Club on Friday 18th May in testing windy conditions

After many attempts to win this competition and playing off a handicap of 3, congratulations to Richard Taylor who finally joins the DSF winners circle with a nett 76.

2nd place went to Russ Ferns after another impressive round, loosing by just 2 shots. Steve Wainwright completed the top 3 finishing 6 shots behind the winner.

This years wooden spoon went to DSF Production Planning Team Leader, Karl Hibbs, who finished 31 shots off the leader with his nett score of 107.

Richard Taylor completed the double by winning this years longest drive prize with Dave Gregory winning the closest to the pin competition.

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20 Dec DSF Christmas Opening times
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    Archived news Items

201110 Jan  See us at Glasspex Mumbai
01 Jan  Improvements to the layout area at Friden
201015 Dec  DSF Christmas Opening Hours
07 Dec  Getting back to normal after snow chaos!
01 Nov  DSF Pleased to sponsor AFGM
22 Oct  Congratulations to AGS
20 Oct  Success with China Triumph
09 Oct  Busiest Glasstec Yet !
10 Aug  Glasstec 2010 Preview
05 Aug  Welcome to Naomi and best wishes to Lucy
21 Jul  DSF World Cup Competition Winners
14 Jul  Rhiannon Webster awarded PhD
08 Jun  Thanks for the visit!
01 Jun  See us at China Glass!
13 May  News from DSF Tianjin
06 Apr  Business on the up!
25 Jan  DSF secure major order from Egypt
11 Jan  DSF Open Again After Power Failure
200903 Dec  DSF Christmas Opening Hours
20 Oct  New Off-Site Storage
07 Oct  Glass Problems Conference Paper October
20 Sep  Rodney Billinge completes Great North Run
20 Sep  China Sales Manager Michael Shen Visits DSF UK
12 Aug  DSF Zircon product range launched
22 Jul  DSF / ESW Visit to Egypt
30 Jun  Visit by Mac Bailey
02 Jun  DSF's New Kiln - now operational
20 May  Thanks for the visit
10 May  See us at Glassman or China Glass
09 May  New Brochure Available for DSF Tianjin
22 Apr  The Official Opening of DSF Refractory Materials (Tianjin)
09 Apr  New Grinder Now Operational.
19 Jan  DSF are continuing to expand firing capacity.
200818 Dec  New DSF brochures now available
15 Dec  New Grinder for DSF UK - From China
25 Nov  DSF visits Bosai Minerals Group Guyana
19 Nov  New Kiln Installed at DSF Tianjin
06 Nov  DSF at Glasstec
09 Sep  An invitation to visit DSF at Glasstec
11 Aug  Production starts in China
31 Jul  Continuing success for Mullite regenerators at Ardagh Glass
06 Jul  Technical Manager Chris Windle Receives Fellowship from the Society of Glass Technology
01 Jun  New Fork Lift Trucks for DSF
19 May  Sichuan earthquake
05 May  See us at Glassman America - Monterrey May 7-8th
01 May  DSF Job Vacancies & Career Opportunities
23 Apr  DSF supply to local lime kilns
21 Apr  Carbon Black China Conference
14 Apr  China Glass 2008 - A success
05 Apr  See us at China Glass Beijing - Apr 10-13th 2008
20 Mar  DSF China moves closer to production.
29 Feb  Demand for Bauxite continues to increase, so do prices!
15 Feb  E Range firing again
25 Jan  Improved Grinding Facilities at DSF
200719 Dec  See us at Glass World Expo in Mumbai 7-8th Jan
16 Dec  DSF to supply hot end tin bath blocks to Pilkington
15 Dec  Successful presentation at Refractories for Cement conference
01 Dec  Price Increases and shortages of Refractory Bauxite
15 Nov  DSF Awarded 5 Stars
12 Nov  DSF give paper at Carbon Black World Conference
06 Nov  Price increases with immediate effect
21 Oct  Mothballed Kilns to be refurbished
18 Sept  DSF Chinese Factory a step closer
10 Sept  Gary Laird has joined DSF as Area Sales Manager
20 Aug  Further expansion at DSF with new grinder














DSF produce a wide range of alumino-silicate and special refractories and the company is world renowned in the production of high fired mullites.

The company specialise on manufacturing large and complex shapes, and the production of bricks to tight dimensional tolerances.




DSF Refractories & Minerals Ltd. Friden, Newhaven, Nr. Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 0DX, England
DSF is a major importer of refractory minerals. Our state of the art crushing, screening and bagging operation is used to produce high quality processed materials.

Products are used in refractories production, road surfacing applications and also used to produce ceramics and welding fluxes.
Email info@dsf.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1629 636271 - Fax: +44 (0) 1629 636892





     

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