A Special Veneer Coating to Preserve Ladle Preheaters If you’re in the steel industry, especially the melt shop, you know how difficult it can be to get several heats from your ladles, much less from your ladle pre-heat covers. What do you do when your ladle pre-heat cover develops hotspots, loses its efficiency and runs hotter than normal? Instead of replacing the cover or the refractory lining, there’s a viable option that not many in the melt shop know about. It’s called a Foamfrax veneer coating, and it’s an easy way to extend the life and efficiency of your refractory at a low cost. It’s unique. And it’s effective. This case study outlines how we used a veneer coating in a recent project in the melt shop of one of our client’s facilities. Customer Challenge This facility has large lad

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