Company History
- 1929 - Founded as a clay supplier to Birmingham Steel and Foundry market
- 1959 - Processing equipment installed to crush, dry, and screen material for user in pneumatic gun. Spraying of cupola was the first application of "Alapatch" clay.
- 1965 - Started spraying steel ladles with "Alapatch" clay.
- 1973 - Facility was built for production of extruded plastic consisting of clay, coke, and pitch for Blast Furnace trough and runners.
- 1974 - Sales reach $1,000,000.
- 1977 - Construction of new research and development facility.
- 1978 - Development of Anhydrous Taphole material using the clay as the major aggregate.
- 1979 - Sales reach $5,000,000.
- 1981 - Construction of production facility in Nanticoke, Ontario.
- 1983 - Precast department started for the casting of Blast Furnace shapes; Changed name of company from Riverside Clay Co. to Riverside Refractories, Inc.
- 1984 - Reduced cement castable introduced for use in precast shapes.
- 1985 - Monolithic Reheat furnace hearth design for pusher type furnaces and lightweight veneer developed and introduced. Pumping of refractory castables introduced.
- 1990 - Development of hearth castable and trough castable using no cement technology; Development of soakng bar taphole material; Sales reach $10,000,000.
- 1991 - Hearth blocks introduced to the market as a superior alternative to Corhart; Development of a Pumpable Blast Furnace Trough Castable.
- 1992 - Development of Blastkast - Shotcrete technology that gives the convenience of gunning with the properites of a castable. A complete line developed.
- 1995 - Sales reach $15,000,000.
- 1997 - ISO 9002 Registration.
- 2000 - Sales reach $20,000,000.
- 2003 - Technical Agreement with Shinagawa Refractories for trough castable.
- 2008 - Sales reach $30,000,000
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