Energy Saving - S.R.C. Engineering: new services for optimising firing and re-firing cycles

S.R.C. Engineering, a company based in Dormelletto (Novara, Italy) specialising in technical consulting services and IT solutions for the production of sanitaryware, tableware and technical ceramics, recently expanded its range of services for optimising firing and re-firing cycles by reducing the maximum temperature normally required.

The body and glaze compositions developed by the S.R.C. laboratory, particularly for sanitaryware production, using raw materials of various origin and tested on a pilot plant, allow firing to be performed with maximum temperatures up to 80-100°C lower than conventional cycles. This brings considerable energy savings, in the case of intermittent kilns resulting in up to 40% lower fuel consumption than the conventional cycle.

The fact that the technology developed by S.R.C. enables optimal use to be made of customers’ local raw materials in the composition of bodies and glazes brings further advantages in terms of overall production costs. In addition to the new technologies on offer, the company’s more than 50 years of first-hand experience in ceramic production enables S.R.C. Engineering to effectively transfer the developed technology complete with support and on-site training of customers’ personnel, as is normally done for conventional sanitaryware products such as vitreous china and fire clay fine.