Vesuvius PLC
Vesuvius plc, established in 1916 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, is a global engineering firm delivering specialized services and solutions primarily to the steel and foundry industries. The company operates through its dedicated Steel and Foundry divisions. Its comprehensive offerings for foundries encompass a wide range of consumables and equipment, including various binders, coatings, feeding systems, filtration and gating solutions, melt shop refractories, advanced metallurgical and pouring control systems, die dressings, melt treatment products, crucibles, and ceramics, serving iron, steel, and nonferrous applications. Beyond its core foundry expertise, Vesuvius provides critical solutions for nonferrous metals, such as primary and secondary aluminum, copper, and other alloys. The company also caters to diverse industrial processes, offering solutions for cement and lime production, iron ore pelletizing and calcination, grains and powders, and various industrial plants including process heaters, FCC units, hydrogen reformers, boilers, coke calciners, thermal oxidizers, and facilities for sulphur, ethylene, and ammonia. Its reach extends to power generation, incineration, and the glass sector, where it supplies products for artistic, display, float, hollow, and optical glass, alongside tempering, reheat, and forming technologies. Additionally, Vesuvius supports the solar industry with solutions for multicrystal silicon ingots, thin film and cell processing, and feedstock. For the steel industry, Vesuvius delivers an extensive array of solutions covering the entire production chain. This includes blast furnace stack repair, specialized materials like taphole clay, iron and slag runners, samplers, temperature control, tilting runners, and torpedo ladle solutions. It also addresses iron ladle requirements, advanced lining systems, taphole and bath agitation/tuyere systems, maintenance for electric arc furnaces (EAF) and basic oxygen furnaces (BOF), and metallurgical sensors. Furthermore, the company provides vital solutions for continuous casting, ranging from ladle to tundish, tundish systems, and tundish to mold applications for various caster types, including conventional slab, thin and slim slab, beam blank, flow control valve bloom or billet, and calibrated nozzle billet casters. Ingot casting solutions are also part of its portfolio, alongside technologies for reheat furnaces, steel hot forming, galvanized steel, and electrical and stainless-steel applications.