Background

Abresist Corporation, based in Urbana, Indiana, manufactures ABRESIST® fused cast basalt and various ceramic linings that provide excellent wear protection. The linings are custom designed for use wherever abrasion and impact wear are a problem. The wear resistant linings reduce downtime and maintenance in processing equipment handling bulk materials such as silica, ore, glass, slag, fly ash, limestone, coal, coke, feed, grain, cement clinker, fertilizer, salt, and other highly abrasive materials.
Company History

The original Abresist material was developed in the 1920s by Kalenborn Kalprotect, the German parent of Abresist Corporation. To form the ABRESIST linings, basalt volcanic rock is melted at temperatures of 1300° C / 2400° F, cast into tiles or cylinders and annealed to give the cast basalt a uniform, crystalline structure that is abrasion-resistant with a Mohs hardness of 8. Engineered tiles and cylinders provide a long service life even in the harshest conditions.
Markets Served

Abresist Corporation, founded in 1977, markets these linings throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Industries working with abrasive raw materials and by-products are ideal candidates for using Abresist linings, especially where equipment is susceptible to friction-induced abrasion. Customers in material handling and processing operations include the steel, coal, power, mine, and food industries. Effective applications include piping systems, separators, cyclones, silos, bunkers, troughs, chutes, impellers, agitators, fan blades and fan casings, conveyor screws, chain conveyors, and mixers.
Support Services

Abresist Corporation individually designs its materials to meet the customer's specific abrasion, impact and corrosion problems. Sales representatives and engineers visit customers on-site to assess problems and gather accurate data to provide an optimal solution, using the Abresist material or combination of materials that would provide the best, most economical solution to the wear problems. Then the specified materials are pre-engineered and labeled for precise identification during installation.

Customers may install the linings or have Abresist Corporation technicians install the materials. Technicians are also available to supervise the installation by the customer or his contractor to ensure the products will perform as intended.
Benefits

The use of Abresist protective linings on wear prone components adds up to significant savings with their longer service life. The cost of replacement parts, the downtime of operations, plant clean-up, and the cost of maintenance work are all dramatically reduced. The savings incurred will pay for the linings and installation in a short time.