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ALAMO S

Brand name: ALAMO S

Company: Harbison-Walker Refractories Co.

Location: Vandalia and Fulton plants, Missouri

Years: 1935-1961+

Type: Superduty Firebrick

Description: Brand name impressed into the face. The "S" stands for stronger than the regular ALAMO firebrick.

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.

References: Harbison-Walker Refractories Company. Modern Refractory Practice. 1961, p. 65-66; Gurcke, Karl. Bricks and Brickmaking. University of Idaho Press, 1987, p. 196.

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