Hot Furnace Repair

During the period of a furnace campaign life, it is most likely that hot repairs to the furnace refractory structure will be required.
Hot repairs fall into several categories, including; general maintenance, planned, emergency and work contributing towards an extended designed furnace campaign life.
It is important that all hot repairs are planned correctly, prepared correctly and carried out by experienced personnel who understand hot repair work, have a good knowledge of refractory materials and installation techniques.
Such qualifications will lead to the completion of a good quality and safe hot repair and assist in preventing continuous repairs to a particular position or a refractory structure failure.
DISMATEC are specialists in the field of hot repairs and have the required ability and experience to plan, prepare and execute a safe and complete project.
Hot repair work completed by DISMATEC includes;

• Metal-line over-coating
• Total melter sidewall over-coating
• Throat over-coating
• Melter crown rat-hole sealing
• Crown expansion joint re-sealing
• Melter superstructure wear repair and rat-hole sealing
• Replacement of part or total superstructures
• Replacement of furnace crown stacks

DISMATEC supply turnkey or part turnkey packages to suit all particular types of hot repair to meet customer requirements, including;

• Engineering expertise to assess an area designated to be repaired
• Advice and recommendations for areas to be repaired
• Project planning and work preparation
• Refractory materials
• Steelwork items
• Experienced refractory disciplined supervision and workforce to carry out hot repairs
• Experienced mechanical disciplined supervision and workforce to assist with hot repairs