Superior Feeder Expendables

RHIM is a leading supplier of forehearth components, including feeder channels, substructures, superstructures and a full line of feeder expendables such as stirrer, tubes, plungers and orifice rings. RHIM offers a wide variety of high grade refractory quality materials and end products.

For longer service life, difficult operating conditions, or in the case of corrosive glass compositions RHIM offers feeder spouts and orifice rings with isostatically pressed inserts based on chromium, zircon-mullite or high-alumina all pre-assembled and ready to use.

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Your benefits

RHIM Expendables are providing you great benefits:

Reliability: high product lifetime due to the high stability and corrosion resistance
Highest corrosion and erosion resistance due to a wide material portfolio to be selected for the development of tailor-made solutions.
Our customer service and after sales team responds rapidly to provide knowledgeable assistance to help its customers to eliminate downtime and maximize production efficiency.
A well trained and dynamic RD&E team constantly researches new mixtures, production processes and designs to reduce application failures like Thermal Shock, Alkali Vapor Attack, Static Glass Corrosion and Dynamic Glass Corrosion. The team constantly strives to drive innovation and to improve both standardized products and highly customer specific requests.

Key features

Slip and vibro casting technology, due to the best fit for the required application.
Optimized material choice
Zirconia mullite, mullite, high alumina, sillimanite grades to be selected according to the operating conditions.
Wide range of different mortars, cements, coatings for the best possible results.
Tailor-made solutions for better customer service.
Huge and high-end machinery for excellent contact surfaces.
Special parts for the individual needs.
Customer Focus: Minimized production down time granting highest customer satisfaction.

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High availability & production capacity

Our plant in Wetro, Germany ensure that we can provide you great availability, fast delivery times and high production capacities. Our experienced team is ready to support you in the required design – tailored to your individual specifications. Upon receiving the number of the expendables our team will provide you an accurate identification and assist you in the selection of the suitable materials.

Special parts for the non-container glass industry

We supply precision crafted refractory products for a very wide range of glass applications. The refractory product line is not glass container specific nor limited to Feeder Expendables:

Burner blocks (furnaces / kilns)
Fiberglass (C, E glass)
Hand Glass
Tableware (semiautomatic robots, rotation machines)
Pressware
Lighting (Danner, Vello, Ribbon)
Advanced Glasses (Medical / Cellular phone etc.)
Rolled Plate
Float Glass

RHIM Expendables