IMPORTED BRICKS
Brand name: ALAMOS
Company: Harbison-Walker Refractories Co.
Location: Vandalia and Fulton plants, Missouri
Years: 1935-1961+
Type: Superduty Fire brick
Description: Brand name impressed into the face.
Equipment: Power-pressed, extrusion, air-rammed, hand-molding, tunnel kilns,
periodic kilns.
Deposit: High-grade refractory fire clay.
Comments: Used in blast-furnace stoves, electric steelmelting furnace roofs.
Brick from the collection of James Salata.
Source: Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, 1961, Modern Refractory Practice,
p. 65-66; Gurcke, Karl, 1987, Bricks and Brickmaking, p. 196.
Comments or questions are welcomed.
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