Smelting

Thermal Applications- Seneca manufactures refractory alumina bodies up to 99.8% purity, zirconia toughened alumina, aluminum titanate, along with other custom bodies for high temperature applications.  Our products are made in a wide range of shapes and sizes specific to the customer’s needs. We are selling our products into markets such as sintered metal/mims, precious metal processing, sacrificial cores for casting, and dental implants.  There also has been many custom parts made for research applications such as furnace retorts, crucibles, furnace liners… .

Ceramics play a crucial role in smelting and other metal forming processes.  Many ceramic components are used as nozzles, agitators, slide gates, crucibles, poring cups and refractory linings.