Founded more than two decades ago by third-generation refractory worker Greg Peak, Empire Solutions designs, builds, and repairs high-temperature furnaces and kilns. The company serves industrial and government clients from offices in Michigan, Alabama, and Ohio, handling refractory construction and maintenance across heat-intensive operations. Its work ranges from emergency furnace repairs to complete relines and retrofits.
Fuse Tech IncorporatedFounded in 1993 by Carl Firestone, Cadiz-based Fuse Tech repairs and maintains high-temperature industrial furnaces and their refractory linings using ceramic welding and other proprietary methods. Its specialty is performing many repairs while furnaces remain hot and operating, helping glass and coke producers extend furnace life without a full shutdown. Fuse Tech’s employees bring more than 150 years of combined ceramic-welding and refractory-repair experience, and the company mixes and tests its exclusive welding materials in-house.CADIZ, OH
Castruction CompanyFor more than 55 years, Salem-based Castruction Company has made specialty refractory shapes and provided furnace-relined and maintenance services for temperature-intensive industries including steel, aluminum, forging, and foundry operations. Its 23,000-square-foot fabrication shop and on-site drying capacity let the company take refractory projects from fabrication through completion, including repairs and complete furnace relines.SALEM, OH
HWI, A member of CalderysHWI makes refractory products and provides high-temperature engineering and service for industries that rely on furnaces, kilns, and metalmaking equipment. Tracing its roots to 1865, the company now operates as the Americas brand of Calderys, with 25 manufacturing sites and 20 distribution centers across the Americas. Its Advanced Technology and Research Center in Pennsylvania is the largest refractory research facility in North America, supporting HWI’s specialty in solving demanding heat-containment and lining challenges.NIAGARA FALLS, NY
Chiz BrosFor more than five decades, family-run Chiz Bros. has supplied refractory materials and high-temperature insulation while engineering custom furnace solutions for manufacturers in the metals, power, glass and ceramics industries. Based in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, the company combines stocked warehouses with project management that can carry a furnace job from drawings and material delivery through installation guidance. Chiz Bros. has also been a Unifrax distributor and partner for more than 39 years.ELIZABETH, PA