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Ceramics and industrial minerals

Ceramics and industrial minerals

 

Vitruvit S.A., producing ceramics and industrial minerals. 

 

Olivine

Olivine, a “green” industrial mineral, thanks to its physical and chemical properties, is used for its refractory properties in many industrial applications such as:

  • In steelmaking, as a slag conditioner in blast furnaces and EAFs,
  • In steelmaking, as tap hole filler sand in EAFs
  • In the production of shaped and unshaped refractories as a raw material
  • In casting, as foundry sand
  • In sandblasting

 

Unshaped refractories

In its plant, located near the port of Thessaloniki, Greece, the company produces a wide range of magnesia or magnesia-olivine based refractory mixes

  • Wet coating tundish mixes, dry tundish mixes, tundish mixes for cold setting
  • Gunning and reaming for EAF and laddle lining repair