Name

Luoyang Sheng Iron Refractories Co.

Legal name

Luoyang Sheng Iron Refractories Co.,Ltd.

Website

https://sirefractories.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Refractories

NAICS

Clay Building Material and Refractories Manufacturing (32712)

akta.pro primary industry

Refractory, Furnace & Kiln Maintenance Services (IMAIACAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Aluminum Smelter/Refinery Technology, Equipment & Refractories (IMAKACAL)

Keywords

• Monolithic refractories
• Blast furnace materials
• Taphole clay products
• Steel ladle castables
• Industrial furnace linings

Headquarters

HQ city

Luoyang

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Refractory materials sales: Sale of refractory materials including anhydrous taphole mud, iron channel castables, dry vibrating materials, prefabricated products, refractory bricks, and metallurgical auxiliary materials. Completed sales of over 580 million yuan in 2022. 2020 full year sales 427 million yuan, 2021 (by September) up nearly 30% year-over-year.
2. Overall contracting services: Full-service solution providing overall contracting for ironworks, steel ladle, electric furnace, tundish, RH furnace, cement kiln, torpedo tank, hot metal ladle, and special furnace operations. Includes product supply and installation services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Luoyang Sheng Iron Refractories Co. manufactures and sells monolithic (unshaped) refractory products and metallurgical auxiliary materials — including anhydrous taphole clay, iron channel castables, dry vibrating materials, gunning mixes, ramming mixes, prefabricated parts, and refractory bricks — for blast furnaces, steel ladles, tundishes, submerged arc furnaces, CFB boilers, electric arc furnaces, hot metal mixers, hot blast stoves, and industrial heating furnaces used in iron and steelmaking, cement, non-ferrous, chemical, and glass industries. The company also delivers integrated full-service overall contracting covering product supply, installation, and ongoing maintenance for these industrial furnace operations.

Product overview

Luoyang Sheng Iron Refractories Co. is a refractory materials manufacturer offering a comprehensive portfolio of unshaped (monolithic) and shaped refractory products across 10 product categories: Submerged Arc Furnace products, Blast Furnace products (including anhydrous taphole clay as a core product), Ladle products, Tundish products, CFB Boiler products, Industrial Furnace products, Heating Furnace products, EAF products, BOF & Hot Metal Mixer products, and Hot Blast Stove products. The company positions itself as a full-service refractory solution provider, offering not only products but also overall contracting services for cement kilns, tundishes, RH furnaces, steel ladles, electric furnaces, and ironworks operations. Core products include anhydrous taphole mud (water-free taphole clay) and iron trough castable products. Annual production capacity reaches 150,000 tons of anhydrous taphole mud products, 50,000 tons of iron ditch castable products, 30,000 tons of dry vibrating materials, and over 30,000 tons of prefabricated products. Products serve iron making, steel making, ferroalloys, cement, aluminum smelting, copper smelting, and chemical industries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Submerged Arc Furnace Products Refractory solutions for submerged arc furnaces including coating mix for iron ladle, running trough for ferroalloy, castable for ferroalloy, Alumina-SiC-C brick for iron ladle, electrode pastes (K Type Paste, SM Type Lining Paste, high-conductive steel rod paste, small piece of electrode paste), ramming site of paste, taphole clay, taphole brick, and SiC Cold Ramming Paste. Used by ferroalloy producers and metallurgical operators.
• Blast Furnace Products Refractory materials for blast furnace operations including the flagship ECO anhydrous taphole clay (environmentally friendly, over 98% pass rate for iron trough depth, over 98% one-time opening rate), anhydrous tap hole clay, spray-gunning castable for lining repair, injection mix for gap filling, full service iron trough solutions, ramming mass products (including for taphole jacket repair), low-cement castable for main iron trough, silicon nitride combined with silicon carbide brick, low ash carbon brick, blast furnace carbon slurry, carbon ramming material, and monolithic refractories for iron ladle. Used by iron and steel mills running blast furnaces.
• Ladle Products Steel ladle refractory solutions including magnesia carbon brick, ladle drainage sand, breathable brick and nozzle block brick, magnesia carbon brick and aluminum magnesium carbon brick, aluminum magnesium spinel carbon-free brick, castable material for working lining, castables for permanent lining, non-burned aluminum carbon skateboard, high temperature firing skateboard, and inner nozzles/collector nozzles. Used by steel mills for ladle lining and continuous casting slide gate systems.
• Tundish Products Intermediate ladle (tundish) refractory products including tundish prefabricated parts (impact pad, current regulator, slag dam), tundish coatings, castables for tundish back lining, and dry vibration mixes. Used by steel mills in continuous casting operations.
• CFB Boiler Products Circulating fluidized bed boiler refractory solutions including wear-resistant gunning material, abrasion-resistant plastics, abrasion-resistant ramming mixes, and abrasion-resistant castables designed for high-velocity flow erosion and dust attack environments. Used by power generation (CFB boiler) and petrochemical operators.
• Industrial Furnace Products Diverse industrial furnace refractory materials including baffle bricks, conventional and lightweight castables in Al2O3-SiO2 system, light weight castables with micro-pored mullite or hollow balls as aggregates, low creep high alumina castables enhanced by adding Si, regenerators for regenerative combustion technique, castables and spraying mixes for rotary kilns, unshaped refractories for aluminum electrolytic cell, refractory castables for aluminum melting furnace, pre-cast shapes, refractory fiber insulating products, and vertical furnace air guide wall precast parts. Used by cement, non-ferrous metals (aluminum, copper), chemical, and glass & ceramic producers.
• Heating Furnace Products Heating furnace refractory solutions including abrasion-resistant pre-cast blocks, burner and anchors, fast dry-out and anti-explosion self-flow castable, quick drying-out castable, mullite based castables with high RUL, plastics, self-flow castable, castable with plasticity, and LC and ULC castables. Used by steel rolling mills and industrial heating furnace operators.
• EAF (Electric Arc Furnace) Products Electric arc furnace refractory solutions including unshaped refractories for EAF and roof precast shapes with high alumina, corundum, and corundum-chrome based formulations for extended service life. Used by EAF-based steel producers.
• BOF & Hot Metal Mixer Products Basic oxygen furnace and hot metal mixer refractories including slag-skimming ball, gunning mixes and self-flow patching mixes, and monolithic refractories for hot metal mixer with mullite, mullite-zirconia, and high alumina-silicon carbide castables. Used by BOF steel mills; hot metal mixer monolithic lining technology replaces conventional brickwork with service lives 1-3 times that of original brickwork linings.
• Hot Blast Stove Products Hot blast stove refractory materials including regenerative balls, light weight spraying mixes, and unshaped refractories (dense castable, ramming mixes, ceramic burners) with good airflow erosion resistance and chemical attack resistance. Used by blast furnace operators for hot blast stove linings.
• Full-Service Solution / Overall Contracting Comprehensive refractory solution services including cement kiln overall contracting, tundish overall contracting, RH furnace overall contracting, steel ladle overall contracting, electric furnace overall contracting, special furnace overall contracting, iron mixing furnace overall contracting, torpedo tank overall contracting, overall contracting of hot metal ladle, and overall contracting of ironworks. Includes product supply, installation, and ongoing maintenance. Full-service refractory solutions provider for iron and steel making, cement, non-ferrous, chemical, and glass industries.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2020 full year sales: 427 million yuan (4.27亿)
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Luoyang Refractory Research InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term cooperative relations with Luoyang Refractory Research Institute for product research and development and technological collaboration in refractory materials.
• Wuhan University of Science and TechnologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic-research partnership with Wuhan University of Science and Technology for joint development of refractory materials technology, talent exchange, and collaborative innovation.
• Henan University of Science and TechnologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperative relationship with Henan University of Science and Technology for research collaboration and talent development in refractory technology.
• Zhengzhou Light Metal Research InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term research cooperation with Zhengzhou Light Metal Research Institute for non-ferrous metal refractories development.
• China Refractory Industry AssociationcoreOthersActive member of China Refractory Industry Association; association leadership visited company in September 2020 to investigate and guide work; received highest AAA credit rating from the association.

Scale indicators21 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Magnezit Group: Russian-headquartered global refractory producer with strong presence in CIS, Asia, and emerging markets. Competes with Sheng Iron in monolithic refractories for iron and steel makers, particularly in non-ferrous and ferroalloy applications.
• Puyang Refractories Group Co., Ltd. Chinese refractory manufacturer headquartered in Henan producing unshaped and shaped refractories for domestic steel and non-ferrous customers. Most direct Chinese peer to Sheng Iron given overlapping product portfolio and customer base in blast furnace and steelmaking refractories.
• HarbisonWalker International: North American refractory leader (now part of RHI Magnesita). Competes in taphole mixes, monolithic refractories, ladle linings, and EAF solutions; useful comparable for service-led monolithic refractory strategy.
• Jiangsu Sujing Group: Large Chinese refractory and inorganic materials producer. Comparable scale and product breadth in unshaped refractories, taphole materials, and steel mill refractories across Chinese steel customers.
• Yingkou Qinghua Refractories Co., Ltd. Chinese refractory specialist serving ironmaking, steelmaking, and continuous casting operations. Direct competitor to Sheng Iron in taphole mud, iron trough castables, and tundish refractories across major Chinese steel companies.

Broad incumbents

• Saint-Gobain Performance Ceramics & Refractories: Global industrial materials conglomerate with a dedicated Performance Ceramics & Refractories division serving steel, glass, and cement. Indirect competitor in monolithic refractories and a benchmark for global refractory R&D and service standards.
• Morgan Advanced Materials: UK-listed global manufacturer of ceramic and refractory products serving industrial, energy, and metallurgical end markets. Comparable in monolithic and shaped refractory manufacturing for high-temperature processing.
• RHI Magnesita: Global leader in refractories serving steel, cement, and non-ferrous industries with integrated mining and digital service platforms. Directly comparable product categories (monolithic and shaped refractories, taphole clays, ladle solutions) with far greater geographic reach and scale.
• Vesuvius plc: UK-listed global specialist in refractory products and systems for the iron, steel, foundry, and glass industries. Directly competes with Sheng Iron in monolithic unshaped refractories, taphole clay, and steel ladle solutions.

Emerging players

• Pyrotek Inc. Specialized refractory and engineered materials company serving aluminum smelters, steel mills, and foundry operators. Comparable in serving non-ferrous metal customers with shaped and unshaped refractory solutions.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance6 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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