Refraline

Highly Engaged Employees

Refraline operates in a variety of industries fraught with risk, yet its dual record of safety and quality, has helped to promote the company as a major refractory contracting business in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. All of which is achieved by asking the right questions. Manfred Rosch joined the company back in 1996, having studied and worked as... a mechanical engineer in his native Germany, before graduating to his current role as Managing Director: "We are very proud of our safety record and we subscribe to the DIFR (Disabling Injury Frequency Rate), which shows that we have had zero accidents for over 12 months. Many years ago we introduced our own in-house safety management processes that have helped us to get to that standard. This is an important consideration for prospective clients and is very important to us when we are working on a client's premises." Refraline is a specialist construction company, involved in all aspects of servicing the refractory industry. Refractory materials are used in linings for furnaces, kilns, incinerators and reactors and are also used to make crucibles. The materials must be chemically and physically stable at high temperatures and depending on the operating environment, they need to be resistant to thermal shock, be chemically inert, and/or have specific ranges of thermal conductivity. As Rosch explains, there are a variety of industries using such processes, all of which have different requirements that Refraline has to understand first time. "We work on refractory and corrosion linings, engineering, design, supply, construction and demolition, " he describes, "essentially our customers are everyone with heat processes and the need for protection in certain environments, which in South Africa can be glass companies, petrochemicals, steel, foundries and mining companies. "We have orders that vary from R5,000 up to R10 million projects and the duration can be one day or one year. No job is too small or too large for us." Headquartered in Meadowdale, Johannesburg, the ...Read More