Fused-cast Refractories for the Glass Industry: a Troubled Future and new Competitive Refractories

摘要

For a very long time, fused-cast refractories have dominated glass refractory applications in the most stressed areas of glass contact and superstructure. These materials, revolutionarily new when introduced in these applications, rapidly filled up all viable niches and led to great success for the few Western companies that developed the necessary level of technology and know-how, and successfully marketed the relevant products and services.