Manufacture cordierite kiln furniture, including batts (plain, perforated and extruded), props, vanity basin setters, various cranks, support tubes, profiles setters, mug setters, roofing tile setters, viaduct blocks, deck slabs, pins and saggars for all ceramic industries, including sanitaryware, tableware, insulators, lightning arrestors and ferrites.
Refractory construction, design and failure consultant and expert witness. Specialized thermal-imaging services for furnace, rotary kiln and other heat enclosures. Licensed professional engineer in Texas; graduate mechanical engineer; certified thermographer.
Provide research, development, consultation, modeling, testing, information, technical support, training, certification and technology-transfer services. Apply services to assist companies in improving their materials and manufacturing processes, performance of their products, use of products, and environmental and energy performance.
Install and maintain brickwork, casting, gunning, ramming and ceramic-fiber refractories. Design, fabricate and install industrial furnaces to customer specifications.
Established 1936. Manufacture refractory specialties for ceramics, heat-treating, foundry and investment-casting industries. Diverse product line includes pottery pins, gating components, pouring cups and filters for molten metals.
Conduct market research and industry analysis in current and new-generation technologies and products. Areas covered include advanced materials, nanotechnology and nanomaterials, processing technologies and products, advanced ceramics, metals and alloys, high-performance coatings, automotive components, aircraft and aerospace materials, electronic devices, photonic components, membranes, chemicals, plastics, pharmaceutical products and biotechnology.
Offer testing and characterization of ceramics, refractories, insulation materials, anisotropic materials and semitransparent materials. Thermal physical properties in any gas composition and pressure, in a wide temperature interval (-50 to +1800C); optical properties; and conductive/radiative components of apparent thermal conductivity, heat transfer mechanisms, properties during physical and chemical transformations.
