SEFPRO and its subsidiary, VALOREF, have offered solutions for the management of refractory wastes issued from total or partial repairs of glass furnaces for over 30 years. To improve the sustainability of their chrome bearing refractory for the insulation glass industry, a new solution has been developed for the complete recycling of refractories containing C42O3 from the insulation glass industry and has started to be deployed worldwide. The recycling of Cr bearing refractory is far more challenging than the use of these refractories in the alkali environment of an insulation glass furnace operation. Contrary to current selective recycling process offered ont he market, SEFPRO has decided to invest in an original recycling process which allows 100% of Cr waste to be treated, whole complying with all current EHS standards. After diemantlement of the furnace, used Cr refractories are decontaminated, processed and then recycled within a new range of Cr containing refractory materials. Due to a new and patented process and refractory formulations, the new materials re designed to offer a high level of performance perfectly suited to the demands of the insulating glas inddustry
