Metals and metallurgy

Metals and metallurgy

The recognized experience of CIR Laboratory in the sector of refractory materials and metallurgy is at your disposal to enable you to identify the best solutions for the production of quality metal and for the optimization of your industrial processes.

Applications areas

We specialize in analysis and testing, consulting, training and R&D services aimed for the following metallurgical sectors:

  • Iron metallurgy
    • Steel
    • Cast iron
  • Non-ferrous metals
    • Aluminum
    • Copper
    • Magnesium
    • Titanium
    • Etc.
  • Precious metals
    • Gold
    • Silver
    • Palladium
    • Platinum
  • Metalloids
    • Silicon
  • Mineralurgy
 

Industrial activities

Our services apply to the following industrial activities:

  • Research and development
  • Selection and identification of materials
  • Manufacturing and shape-forming processes
    • Raw materials selection
    • Mineralurgy
      • Extraction
      • First transformation
    • Foundry
      • Blast furnaces
      • Refining
    • Crude product fabrication
    • Transformation of crude products in half-wrought materials
    • Fabrication of materials and finished products
    • Surface treatments
    • Thermal treatments
    • Recycling of materials
  • Quality control
  • Post-Mortems (failure analyses)
  • Modeling (physical and thermodynamic)
  • Audits and optimization