ALAMO S / 1

Brand name: ALAMO S / 1

Company: Harbison-Walker Refractories Co.

Location: Vandalia and Fulton plants, Missouri

Years: 1935-1961+? (brick made)

Type: Superduty Firebrick

Description: Key-shaped. Brand name ALAMO S impressed into the face with number "1" beneath on second line. 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.

References: Harbison-Walker Refractories Company, Modern Refractory Practice, 1961, p. 65-66.