Allied Mineral Products has opened the doors to its newest precast shapes manufacturing facility in Gosforth Business Park in Germiston, Johannesburg. This marks Allied’s sixth precast shapes location worldwide.
Shapes manufacturing brings an added benefit to South African customers. Some benefits include foundry crucibles, furnace structural parts, EAF deltas and spouts, tilters and skimmer blocks, dampers and divider walls, incinerator shapes, and rotary furnace shapes.
Allied’s engineering capabilities include designing and manufacturing complex shapes in virtually any size. Precast shapes can also be created from existing drawings or shapes.
Allied Mineral Products has opened the doors to its newest precast shapes manufacturing facility in Gosforth Business Park in Germiston, Johannesburg. This marks Allied’s sixth precast shapes location worldwide
Allied Mineral Products South Africa’s engineering capabilities include designing and manufacturing complex shapes in virtually any size. Precast shapes can also be created from existing drawings or shapes
“We have opened the manufacturing facility across the road from our existing facility, where we design and manufacture monolithic refractories for the foundry, aluminium, steel, cement, power, minerals processing, boiler, heat treating, forging and industrial markets. It comprises two factories – one 2 800m² and the other 2 400m². Our manufacturing plant has been setup in the bigger factory and the other one will be occupied once we have created the demand for our product,” explained Clinton Pretorius, Managing Director of Allied Mineral Products South Africa.
“The plant consists of a furnace manufactured by Technifurn and a mixing platform that consists of two Mud Hog 1-ton paddle mixers. Moulds are also made locally, either in wood or steel.”
“You could describe it as diversification, but we look at it as an extension of our local product offering and a means to meet the growing demands of our customers and their markets since we are taking know-how and IP from our head office in the US, who have been manufacturing the products since 1995.”
“Precast refractory shapes are not mass produced, but purpose-made products for a specific application. Precast components are easy to install and examples are given where one precast block replaces about 30 bricks or an iron ladle can require as many as 3 000 bricks to build. However, only eight precast blocks are required to build the ladle.”
Precast refractory shapes are not mass produced, but purpose-made products for a specific application
The plant consists of a furnace manufactured by Technifurn and a mixing platform that consists of two Mud Hog 1-ton paddle mixers. Moulds are also made locally, either in wood or steel
“Our foundry shapes offerings encompass coreless furnaces, channel induction furnaces, cupolas, gas-fired furnaces, resistance rod furnaces, heat treating and forging furnaces, reverberatory furnaces, vacuum tundishes, transfer ladles, ductile treatment ladles, pouring tundishes/boxes, launders, centrifugal casting feed equipment and impact shapes.”
Allied Mineral Products is a leading global manufacturer of monolithic refractories and precast refractory shapes with 12 worldwide manufacturing facilities, six precast shapes facilities, and three research and technology centres. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA Allied serves a wide variety of industries with innovative refractory solutions and exceptional service and support, backed by expert engineering and research teams. Allied is proud to be an employee-owned company.
For further details contact Allied Mineral Products South Africa on TEL: 011 776 2400 or visit www.alliedmineral.com
