2001 TMS Annual Meeting: Exhibitor

BNZ Materials, Inc. consists of two businesses which are appropriate to the metals industry. The Zelienople, Pennsylvania plant manufactures/markets Insulating Firebrick and complementary refractory products such as mortars, aggregates, castables and calcium silicate block. Insulating Firebrick are used in a variety of applications in the metals industry, from carbon baking furnaces to melting and holding furnaces.

The Billerica, Massachusetts plant manufactures a line of calcium silicate boards under the Marinite trademark. They are machined into various parts for conveying, containing, and forming aluminum, lead, zinc, tin and other non-ferrous metals. These parts include spouts, floats, launders, distribution plates, head boxes, baffles, headers, tips, rings, distribution boxes, stoppers, basins, snouts, orifice plates, hot top and ingot mold liners as well as parts in the metal handling and casting systems of many casting machines.