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Thermal Ceramics, a producer of high-temperature fiber insulation products and refractory materials, was originally founded in East Liverpool, Ohio, as the Refractories Division of Babcock & Wilcox. The operation was shifted to its current site in Augusta, Ga., in the late 1920s due to a nearby supply of highquality kaolin.
According to Lance Caspersen, program manager, two significant developments over the past 75 years have had a great impact on the industry. The first has been the increasingly long life of refractory materials under increasingly severe conditions, such as higher temperatures and greater corrosiveness. The second has been a pronounced shift to lighter, more insulating products, such as refractory fibers and insulating firebrick, and away from dense refractory.