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RHI - Competence For The Glass Industry

RHI - everywhere in your furnace, but not in your glass !

Since more than a century the companies Didier, Refel, Veitscher and Monofrax - the innovative partners to the glass industry - have acquired extensive experience and in-depth know-how of the different glass melting units and glass types.

After the integration of Didier-Werke AG into the RHI-Group, now as RHI GLAS GmbH, consequently combines outstanding refractory experience with the most innovative technology network of RHI AG.

Its established product brands of DIDIER, REFEL, VEITSCHER and MONOFRAX are used in all parts of glass melting furnaces.
In tradition of these brands RHI GLAS GmbH offers innovative solutions to customers under the corporate brand of RHI.

RHI will be committed to perfectly adjusted refractory supplies for melting furnaces and secondary units in the glass industry. Focusing on technologically sophisticated materials is a way to meet the emerging market demand for longer furnace service lives, enhanced specific furnace performance and loads, and ever-higher glass quality.The acknowledged product and service quality of RHI is based on carefully selected, long term tried and tested raw materials, production plants with state-of-the-art technology, permanent intensive research and development activities in the company's own technology centre in Leoben, Austria, and on the high-level expertise of all employees working in the sales, marketing, production, and research divisions. In this regard, RHI sees itself not only as a reliable supplier of high-quality refractory products, but also as partner of the glass industry that develops full solutions in collaboration with customers.

Ongoing major investments in state-of-the-art technology and production facilities enables us to keep the highest quality standards RHI is worldwide known for.

Examples are:

  • automatic calibration of chimney block checkers to guarantee lowest tolerances in setting height
  • new grinding and cutting equipment for furnace and tin bath bottom blocks to achieve lowest tolerances in overall dimensions
  • innovative fused cast products with lowest glassy phase content
  • new machinery for fused cast blocks resulting in block tolerances, that enables jointless linings without mortar
  • modern presses to achieve lowest porosity and infiltration resistance