ICAR

ICAR is a private expert company which brings benefits to its clients of a complete offer of services on refractories. The company was created in 2004, with the merging of 2 technical centers which experience is more than 30 years serving every actors producing or using refractories:

suppliers,
steelmaking industry,
non ferrous metal industry,
cement industry,
glass industry,
energy and incineration,
petrochemistry.

The technical staff of ICAR is composed of 15 persons, laboratory technicians, engineers, and PhD, with skills in various fields: process engineering, material science, mechanics, …

ICAR proposes 5 products to its clients:

Trials and characterization through a large laboratory : mechanical testing, chemical and microstructural investigations, thermal characterization and corrosion (gases, slag, glass, alkaline, …)
R&D studies through consortium projects, and private demands. R&D engineers are also specialist in finite elements modeling.
Expertise in the frame of furnace breakdown in relation to refractory behavior,
Industrial audits: the customer who needs to renew the refractory lining asks for technical assistance to build the requirements, to examine the technical offer from installation companies, and to supervise the operations.
Training sessions:
- (i) the refractory materials,
- (ii) installation of refractories,
- (iii) behavior in service and recycling of refractory material