Abrasion Resistant Materials
Abrasion resistant materials are difficult to select. "Abrasion" covers a wide range of conditions from impact by rocks to wear by fine particles in an air stream. All abrasion resistant materials have hard particles, the "aggrega…
Open technical page →Product categoryAdhesives
Below 100°C there are hundreds of adhesives which work. Between 100°C and 250°C certain silicones can be used. Above 250°C it becomes difficult. The biggest problem is the difference in thermal expansion between the materials to b…
Open technical page →Product categoryAsbestos Replacement
Heatconsult started with asbestos replacements in the 1980’s. A vast number of people and organizations have worked on this problem, and most of them spent a fortune and got no direct reward. Heatconsult had many successes, but th…
Open technical page →Product categoryBinders
Binders are chemicals for sticking particles together into a solid mass, as opposed to adhesives, which are normally used to stick surfaces together. Most chemical solutions will give some binding effect after drying. The chemical…
Open technical page →Product categoryCable Protection
1. Thermal Cups: These are similar to the “beads” on the wiring of toaster and iron. They allow flexing while keeping the cable enclosed.
Open technical page →Product categoryCastables
Heatconsult does not manufacture standard castables, since there are a large number of companies already making them. We do make a few special castables
Open technical page →Product categoryCellular Insulation
Cellular insulation is a new concept in refractories, developed by Heatconsult. The materials are based on cenospheres; tiny hollow ceramic balls, which give very good insulation properties, high strength and very good flow proper…
Open technical page →Product categoryKeratab Dump Mix
These criteria are difficult to meet. Keratab Dump Mix was eventually perfected to display all of these properties. It turned out to be ideal for certain applications in furnace roofs. The biggest application is in feed chutes for…
Open technical page →Product categoryFire Protection
W e have many materials for fire prevention and containment. Many are based on Cellular Insulation technology, and many include almost impervious microstructures to exclude oxygen.
Open technical page →Product categoryGRAPHITE
Decorative graphite paint. Included here because it is the purest graphite paint, coarse flake supplied as powder
Open technical page →Product categoryHardcast
It is used in place of concrete where very low permeability is necessary, for acid resistance .
Open technical page →Product categoryInduction Materials
Induction Coil Coating : A hard, strong, 93% alumina putty for protecting coils. Use it between coils and as a thin cover to prevent molten metal contact
Open technical page →Product categoryKeraforce
Keraforce is a composite of ceramic slurry and geotextile cloth. The slurry is mixed, powder and binder, to a paint consistency. The geotextile or any other textile is dipped into the slurry and then applied to the object to be re…
Open technical page →Product categoryMastic
Mastics are soft plastic materials, often supplied in tubes, which can be injected into cracks and cavities, or used for sealing purposes.
Open technical page →Product categoryMiscellaneous
Some of these products are imported, others sourced locally, and stocked at Heatconsult.
Open technical page →Product categoryRefractory Mortars
Mortars are the cement or “dagha” used to lay bricks. In civil construction these joints are around 10 to 15mm thick. In refractory brick structures these joints are made as thin as possible, and average about 2mm thick. Refractor…
Open technical page →Product categoryMoulding
Introduction ; Moulding is the system of reproducing articles in quantities of identical copies. The original sample is called the “model” or “master”. The die in which it is reproduced is called the “mould” and the reproduction i…
Open technical page →Product categoryRefractory Paints and Coatings
Refractory paints have various functions, such as marking, anti corrosion, surface hardening, anti-wetting, electrical isolation, lubrication and release agents.
Open technical page →Product categoryPatching
Damaged refractory castables are difficult to patch, because the dry material sucks water out of the patching material. The patching material has to be very sticky and must resist losing its liquid. we have some materials speciall…
Open technical page →Product categoryCommercial Pizza Ovens
Heatconsult Pizza Ovens (available in kit format) Commercial and Home Versions Contents: Principles of Heatconsult pizza ovens, Pricing details, Construction Instructions, Cross section of oven, Material specifications. Principles…
Open technical page →Product categoryRefractory Plaster
Plasters are normally troweled into place. They need to have a smooth cohesive consistency and good adhesion to surfaces. Some Heatconsult materials are designed as plasters, but most of the others can be modified into plasters.
Open technical page →Product categoryPlastics
Plastics are putty-like materials. They are easily placed in small quantities and generally have high strength and abrasion resistance. The most popular are phosphate bonded chrome-alumina materials called Keraplas .
Open technical page →Product categoryPourables
By "pourable materials" we mean materials which flow by themselves after mixing, until they reach a level surface.
Open technical page →Product categoryPowders
Heatconsult makes a range of cellular insulation materials based mainly on hollofill tiny ceramic bubbles. These can also be made into a self-spreading insulation powder called Keratherm 1 Kerinduct 2 is a dry-spiking spinel formi…
Open technical page →Product categoryPrecast
Heatconsult makes fine pourable ceramics called refractoramics, which are used to make a wide range of products that could only be made previously by pressing. We have over 1000 moulds.
Open technical page →Product categoryPumpable Materials
Pumpable materials can be installed into inaccessible places, or can be mixed far from the site of installation and pumped, usually a high vertical distance to their point of application. All very fine materials can be pumped, but…
Open technical page →Product categoryRamming
Ramming materials are not particularly user friendly, but we do make a few varieties. Zircon ramming is an extremely dense material used mainly in the glass industry. Permeable materials are very difficult to work with, and are ma…
Open technical page →Product categoryRefractory Boards
We have developed an enormous variety of refractory boards over the years, covering about 18 projects. We can therefore supply just about anything you want; Vermiculite Board , Perlite boards, Keratuff boards, Baking Trays, Synwoo…
Open technical page →Product categoryRelease Agents
We have developed many release agents over the last 30 years. Each one is compatible with a particular substrate and a particular material poured onto it.
Open technical page →Product categoryTextiles
There is a bewildering array of textiles out there. Heatconsult has tested a vast range of them, and reduced the range to those that work really well in mouldings. We do not manufacture any of them, but stock all the best ones.
Open technical page →Product categoryThermalcast
Description: Thermalcast is a refractory castable with a high insulation value yet high strength and resistance to thermal cycling.
Open technical page →Product categoryRapolite Vermiculite
We have a wide range of vermiculite products, and we are expanding it as perlite becomes more expensive and difficult to obtain. Some of the more popular ones are; Vermiculite Castable: Is a high strength pourable insulation with …
Open technical page →Product categoryVersimould
Versimould is a range of quick-setting mineral materials with a variety of applications. They are inorganic, but unlike other inorganic materials they are not brittle. They have properties somewhere between those of concrete and e…
Open technical page →Product categoryZircon
Zircon is a natural mineral ocurring as fine crystals in granite. It is very heavy, hard and chemically inert, so it gets concentrated with other heavy minerals in beach sands. It is extracted together with titania minerals like i…
Open technical page →Product categoryRefractory Bricks
Firebricks, pavers, super-duty bricks and B6 insulating firebricks, including dimensions, service temperatures and thermal data.
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