Low mass kiln furniture, setters, saggers, element holders and burner parts for kilns and heat treating furnaces.
Every pound of kiln furniture is heated and cooled with the ware.
Thin, precise ceramic shapes that carry the load with less mass.
Industrial furnace ceramics are the shapes inside a kiln or furnace that carry, hold or heat the product: kiln furniture such as plates, beams, posts and rollers, pusher plates and muffle liners, saggers and setters, heating element holders, burner parts and thermocouple tubes. Blasch casts them thin and to tight tolerances in high purity alumina and silicon carbide, so they carry the same load with less mass. Less mass means shorter ramp up and cool down, less energy into the furniture and more room for the ware on the same kiln car.
When energy was cheap, kiln setups were built heavy: thick brick, blocks, plates and supports. Much of the fuel went into the furniture, not the product.
Kiln room operators use Blasch low mass support assemblies in place of cast block and thick plate. The kiln furniture, pusher plates and muffle liners are engineered around the ware, in recrystallized, nitride bonded or reaction bonded silicon carbide or high purity alumina.
For debinding and sintering of metal injection molded parts, calcining of lithium cathode powders or firing of dental zirconia, plates, saggers, boats and setters are designed for the specific part and atmosphere.
Ultra high alumina with minimal silica and MgO and spinel based materials are in development for reducing and basic atmospheres.
In a kiln, the furniture is fired with every load, so cutting its mass saves energy on every cycle for as long as the furniture lasts.
Furnace engineers come to Blasch when thick monolithic or brick insulation keeps failing. Engineered insulating shapes, heating element holders and insulators and burner components are cast in high strength, thermal shock resistant material.
Thin walled burner tiles, burner nozzles and pilot tips, thermocouple protection tubes and hot gas filters and recuperators come from the same process, in intricate shapes that install the same way every time.
Sanitary ware, refractory shapes, electronics, lithium battery cathode powders, abrasives and grinding media, technical ceramics, SOFC and SOEC production, ceramic filters and brick manufacturing.
Semiconductor furnaces use high purity alumina and silicon carbide support structures in place of graphite or quartz arrangements, in horizontal and vertical designs.
Powder metallurgy sintering, metal injection molding sintering, radiant tubes, industrial burners, recuperators and heat recovery, and furnace beams and supports.
Saggers for cathode materials have their own page under battery materials manufacturing. Crucibles and linings for melting are under molten metals.
Market manager for process heating on the previous Blasch site: Tim Connors, in the role of Director of Business Development, Blasch Global Solutions.
Kiln furniture made from thinner sections of strong ceramic, so the supports weigh less while carrying the same load. Less mass heats and cools faster and takes less energy.
Recrystallized, nitride bonded and reaction bonded silicon carbide, high purity alumina, mullite and cordierite, chosen for temperature, atmosphere and load.
Yes. Setters and saggers are designed around the part or powder they carry, for batch and continuous furnaces.
No. Blasch makes the ceramic components inside them: furniture, setters, element holders, burner parts and custom shapes.
Send the furnace type, the temperature and what you fire. A Blasch engineer proposes a lighter setup and the material.
