Steel Making

Are your refractory lining bricks compatible with variable steel making application conditions?

The steel making process involves several stages of thermal and chemical treatment requiring a variety of refractory linings that are compatible with many application conditions.

The steel making process represents the metallurgical sector involving the pig iron transformation into steel, its transport and refining until the molding stage. This highly corrosive process requires refractory materials with excellent resistance to steel and basic slag corrosion, as well as high thermal shock and oxidation resistance. Saint-Gobain, the worldwide leader in refractory materials and shapes, services this market with high-quality products including:

• Al₂O₃-SiC-C bricks for iron ladles
• Bricks and basic monolithics of Mag-Carbon for BOF
• Bricks and basic monolithics of Al₂O₃-MgO-C (MAC and AMC spinel) for steel ladles
• Carbon-free lining ladle for ultra-low carbon steel and energy saving
• Complete slide gate system solution
• Monolithics for tundish

Saint-Gobain offers solutions for many iron & steel making challenges in the reduction area, which includes the production and transport of pig iron, or in the steel mill, which involves iron & steel production, transport, refining and treatment.

Saint-Gobain provide innovative solutions from project stage to refractory application offering high performance and cost reduction for sectors including:

• Electric arc furnace (EAF)
• Pig iron ladle
• Steel ladle
• Basic oxygen furnace (BOF)/Converter LD
• Tundish
• Continuous casting
• Slide gate system