Blasch Precision Ceramics designs and casts ceramic and refractory components in Albany, New York, since 1979.
Tunnels, checkerwalls, ferrules, liners, crucibles and nozzles,
designed for the abrasion, heat or corrosion that wears out your current part.
Blasch Precision Ceramics is an advanced ceramics manufacturer in Albany, New York, that engineers and casts custom ceramic and refractory shapes for refining, hydrogen and ammonia plants, sulfur recovery, metal melting, power generation and mining. Each part is designed for one application from its dimensions and operating conditions, so a drawing is not required. Blasch has made these components since 1979 and is certified to ISO 9001:2015.
Members of the American Ceramic Society, the American Foundry Society, the Investment Casting Institute and the Metal Powder Industries Federation.
Most of our parts replace a component that fails in the same place every campaign. Start with the process you run, or browse by industry. All applications
Precast flue gas tunnel systems that go in quickly and keep flue gas flow even across the tube rows.
Checkerwalls for Claus furnaces, ferrules for waste heat boilers, erosion parts for FCC units.
Crucibles and linings for superalloy melting, riser tubes, degassing parts and channel furnace linings.
Coal nozzles, fluidized bed nozzles, lined elbows and air heater inserts where ash and coal wear through steel.
Hydrocyclone liners, vortex finders, lined pipe and pump components for abrasive slurry.
Kiln furniture, saggers and setters, burner parts and heating element supports for continuous furnaces.
Many plants replace a worn component with the same design that failed. The part comes back, and so does the shutdown.
When a part is designed for the way it fails, the next shutdown is the one you planned, not the one the part chose for you.
Most inquiries start without a drawing, and that is fine. Our engineers take the dimensions, the medium, the temperature and the flow, then choose the ceramic and design the part.
They check flow, heat and stress before anything is cast, using CFD and FEA, and test materials for thermal shock, abrasion and creep in our own lab.
The part is cast to near net shape with our own forming process, so complex geometry, internal threads and changing wall thickness do not need machining afterwards.
Every number below comes from a documented installation, with the application it was measured in.
Bagasse boiler, Guatemala
Pneumatic ash conveying at 60 to 70 °C. After 30 months the CeraLine elbow showed about 10% wear, where steel elbows had lasted 3 to 4 months.
FCCU catalyst line, Greece
A catalyst line with thermal cycling at 690 °C, where earlier parts failed within days, ran more than 12 months with a ceramic lined component.
Lithium battery plant, US Midwest
A highly corrosive process stream that wore out components within months. The ceramic lined replacement has run for more than a year.
Primary reformer, published 2020
After the flue gas tunnels were replaced with StaBlox, the spread of tube metal temperatures halved and production rose by 3.3%.
Alumina for wear and purity, zirconia composites for corrosive melts, silicon carbide in six bonding systems for erosion and heat, fused silica and aluminum titanate where thermal shock decides the life of the part.
The right grade depends on what attacks the part: particles, temperature swings, molten metal or chemistry. That choice is made per application, never from a table.
Four steps, with one engineer as your contact the whole way.
Tell us what fails, where, and how often. Dimensions and operating conditions are enough.
We choose the material, design the part and check flow, heat and stress where the application calls for it.
The part is made in Albany, New York, or with a qualified partner when another forming method fits better.
Parts are designed to drop into the existing system, so the outage is spent setting parts, not forming them.
No. Most inquiries arrive without one. Send the dimensions, the medium, the temperature and the flow, and a Blasch engineer designs the part from there.
No. Blasch does not coat or spray. A coating is a thin layer on steel; a Blasch liner is a cast ceramic part with its own wall thickness, fitted inside the pipe or elbow.
Flue gas tunnel systems for reformers, checkerwalls for sulfur recovery and acid furnaces, ferrules for waste heat boilers, crucibles and linings for metal melting, nozzles, kiln furniture and custom shapes. All products
Alumina, mullite, zirconia composites, fused silica, aluminum titanate, silicon nitride and silicon carbide in several bonding systems. The grade is chosen for each application.
In Albany, New York, with a second site in Beaufort, South Carolina. Some shapes come from vetted manufacturing partners when their forming method suits the part better.
Send the dimensions and the conditions it runs in. A Blasch engineer answers with a design, not a brochure. Call 1-800-550-5768 or write to us.
