Recent trends in refractory practices in reheating and heat treatment furnaces

It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege to speak to such, a distinguished audience. Having worked for a number
of years on both sides of the fence, albeit imaginary, of refractory application and manufacture it is a pleasure
for me to see both the groups together In this seminar. Proper co-ordination and co-operation among the refractory
manufacturers would make the efforts to achieve better results in the field of refractories easier and quicker. My
personal experience In switching sides has been extremely enlightening to comprehend the entire gamut of refractory technology. Of course the tendency on my part to perce-ptibly increase in physical dimension in latter years, would have made walking in and out of hot furnaces rather inconvenient.Hence possibly the switchover has proved to be advantageous-personally. However if frank and free dis-cussions amongst the different groups lead to better understandings, coordinations and cooperations, then I would be amply rewarded in sharing some of my thoughts on the subject.