Are you interested in shorter downtime, efficient and quick installation of castables?
Saint-Gobain’s latest Norflow® castable product line provides engineered solutions to our customers that require help running their installations more efficiently.
Norflow® products are castables that are designed to be installed without using any installation tools, e.g. vibrator, as the products are self-flowing. It is sufficient to prepare the mix and poor it into the mold or area, and the product will flow in all zones automatically.
Features and Benefits:
Self-flow castables are essentially characterized by their fluidity, their low segregation and bleeding, their ability to pumping, and their sufficient workability time. They can be installed either traditionally with a bucket or with a pump. The formulation of self-flowing castables is based on three principles and criteria:
the fluxing of the paste (binder + fine particles + water)
the limitation of friction between aggregates
the stabilization of the mixture to avoid segregation risks
Just like conventional castables, self-flowing castables can be combined with PP or PVC fibers to improve drying kinetics and limit the risk of spalling during initial heat-up. The use of reinforcement steel fibers is also possible without altering the self-flowing capability, when special tensile strength of resistance to cracking is required.
Main advantages of self-flowing castables are:
Economical: reduced downtime, increased productivity, manpower savings (e.g; no additional or specific preparation of the installation is requested compared to conventional castables)
EHS: better and less painful working conditions, lower noise, better safety (e.g. no need to walk on formworks with vibrating needles)
Technical: generally higher performance, better aspect of surfaces and edges, greater freedom in structure design
Norflow® products are suitable for installation of coil coat, ladle, launder and tundish lining as well as furnace linings.
Are you interested in shorter downtime, efficient and quick installation of castables?
Saint-Gobain’s latest Norflow® castable product line provides engineered solutions to our customers that require help running their installations more efficiently.
Norflow® products are castables that are designed to be installed without using any installation tools, e.g. vibrator, as the products are self-flowing. It is sufficient to prepare the mix and poor it into the mold or area, and the product will flow in all zones automatically.
Features and Benefits:
Self-flow castables are essentially characterized by their fluidity, their low segregation and bleeding, their ability to pumping, and their sufficient workability time. They can be installed either traditionally with a bucket or with a pump. The formulation of self-flowing castables is based on three principles and criteria:
- the fluxing of the paste (binder + fine particles + water)
- the limitation of friction between aggregates
- the stabilization of the mixture to avoid segregation risks
Just like conventional castables, self-flowing castables can be combined with PP or PVC fibers to improve drying kinetics and limit the risk of spalling during initial heat-up. The use of reinforcement steel fibers is also possible without altering the self-flowing capability, when special tensile strength of resistance to cracking is required.
Main advantages of self-flowing castables are:
- Economical: reduced downtime, increased productivity, manpower savings (e.g; no additional or specific preparation of the installation is requested compared to conventional castables)
- EHS: better and less painful working conditions, lower noise, better safety (e.g. no need to walk on formworks with vibrating needles)
- Technical: generally higher performance, better aspect of surfaces and edges, greater freedom in structure design
Norflow® products are suitable for installation of coil coat, ladle, launder and tundish lining as well as furnace linings.
