Refractory Solutions

Refractories form the bedrock of some of the world’s most intense areas of heavy industry, retaining their form and inherent strengths under severe operating conditions. Today’s refractory components are built to last in some of the toughest thermal processes on earth.

Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories has curated a range of refractory solutions for key metallurgical and high-temperature processes. With decades of practical expertise leveraging high-performance refractories throughout manufacturing chains, Saint-Gobain is one of the world’s leading supplier of expert, value-added refractory solutions.

Saint-Gobain Refractory Solutions: Foundries, Waste Conversion & More

We supply comprehensive blast furnace lining solutions covering every aspect of design, from the throat down to the hearth, to help futureproof your iron making operations. Our applications expertise stems into non-ferrous markets too, with hot facing refractory solutions suitable for continuous shaft furnaces. From high-performance foundry monolithics to carefully-formed tiling systems in waste to energy converters, we offer finely-tailored refractories to suit a range of challenging application areas.

Explore our refractory solutions below. Or, if you would like to speak with a member of the team, simply contact us today.

Crude steel production begins with the reduction process, where the iron ore reacts with carbon sources inside the blast furnace. The blast furnace requires different types of refractory products with resistance to thermo-mechanical and thermo-chemical reactions.

Ironmaking

Saint-Gobain’s large experience in refractory materials for ironmaking assure to its customers the best performance available in the market, with taylor made solutions.

Steel and Steelmaking

Refractory materials from Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories' offer excellent performance and life in steel making applications.

Foundry

Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories leverages its extensive expertise to provide innovative, reliable refractory solutions for all ferrous and non-ferrous metal melting operations and metal coating processes.

Aluminum

Advancal^® aluminium reduction cell material from Saint-Gobain offers extended service life through improved oxidation and corrosion resistance. 

Copper Furnaces

Refractory materials from Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories offer excellent performance and extended service life in the most critical copper furnace zones.

Zinc

A wide range of refractories for the zinc industry.

Saint-Gobain offers unparalleled refractory lining design, engineering, products and service to the petrochemical industry worldwide.

Petrochemistry, Syngas and Hydrogen

Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories offers unparalleled refractory lining design, engineering, products and services to the global petrochemical industry.

Carbon Black

Discover Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ comprehensive range of carbon black refractory solutions for tread and carcass reactors.

Saint-Gobain provides outstanding refractory solutions for thermal treatment in the WTE market. Our tube protection systems are unrivaled protecting tube walls even under demanding conditions. Our oxidation resistant & high thermal conductivity materials, based on silicon carbide (SiC), have various formulations to meet your customized thermal and chemical requirements.

Waste to Energy Solutions with Silicon Carbide

Discover Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories’ range of high performance refractory solutions for thermal waste treatment in waste to energy facilities - helping convert domestic waste to energy in an eco-friendly manner.

Heat Treatment

Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories has been designing and manufacturing high performance refractories for demanding atmosphere furnaces for over 70 years. Our team of application engineers, material scientists and design engineers understand the conditions in atmosphere furnaces and can help you choose the correct material for your application.