Casthouse

VESUVIUS offers a full portfolio of refractory products and solutions for modern casthouse floor applications. Our products and systems have been engineered to provide optimal service life, reduced refractory-related downtime, and most importantly, a safe, reliable casthouse floor system. Our innovative approach to blast furnace refractory applications has resulted in proven technological advancements.

VESUVIUS designs, manufactures and installs a wide range of products for casthouse floor applications. Comprised primarily of high alumina/silicon carbide/carbon, these products provide superior resistance to slag erosion/corrosion, oxidation and thermal cycling.

Key product categories include:

• Low-moisture castable (pumpable and vibration cast)
• Low-moisture shotcrete
• No-cement castable (pumpable & vibration cast)
• No-cement shotcrete
• Precast shapes
• Granular Ram & black sand
• Plastic Ram
• Gunned maintenance materials
• Dry vibratable
• Anhydrous taphole closure materials
• High strength insulation board
• Continuous temperature measurement