Steel

A steel vessel is only earning its keep between taps. When the lining fails mid-campaign, the vessel comes off line for a reline nobody scheduled, and the heat that was due doesn’t happen.

The lining has to survive the
cycle, steel and slag.

A steel vessel charges, taps, drains and cools, then repeats the cycle, heat after heat. Molten steel sits against one face of the lining and slag against another, and each wears it differently. Specify for one without accounting for the other, and the face exposed to the material you didn’t design for wears first. Replacing the lining doesn’t change the cycle the vessel has to survive.

How SRA works
in steel

Material selection follows thermal analysis and 3D design

Thermal analysis and 3D design run before any material is chosen, so the lining is specified against what the vessel actually does rather than a standard specification applied across the vessel. Steel wears one face, slag the other, and that’s built into the selection from the start.

Precast and monolithic components are made to that design

What’s manufactured matches what the design calls for at each face, precast where the geometry suits it, monolithic where it doesn’t. Nothing about the shape is adjusted once it’s arrived on site.

The design carries through to installation

Shinagawa’s engineers brief the installation team on anchoring, jointing and dry-out against what the design specified, then stay on site through the install and commissioning. Most of what undermines a lining before it’s run a single cycle happens at this stage.

Performance is reviewed through the campaign

Once the vessel is running, Shinagawa reviews how the lining is performing for the length of the campaign. A shift in wear shows up early enough to fix before it becomes an unplanned reline.

Three of three tap holes,
held for two years

Shinagawa was performing on two of three tap holes. The third moved to Shinagawa after a competitor’s product was affected by a raw material change. Shinagawa has since held all three, for two years.

How we work with you

From thermal analysis through to the campaign itself, every stage sits with the same team, not handed off at the joins the standard model creates.

See how we work

Thermal Analysis
& 3D Design

Solved on paper before it’s ever in your vessel. We model where a lining wears first, corners, joints, load points, and design to that, not a standard spec.

Manufacture

Made by the people who designed it. Custom mixes are developed in-house; precast shapes range from proven designs to purpose-built moulds cast to your vessel’s exact geometry.

Supply

The whole lining, from one accountable source. What we manufacture locally is joined by the full brick range through Shinagawa’s global network, so nothing arrives from a second, unaccountable supplier.

Installation Support

We brief the installers and stay on through commissioning, because performance is decided at the install, not just in the design.

Performance Backing

Most suppliers stop at delivery. We stay through the campaign, reviewing performance so issues get flagged before they become shutdowns.

Performance Backing

Most suppliers stop at delivery. We stay through the campaign, reviewing performance so issues get flagged before they become shutdowns.

Popular products for the
alumina industry