MEETING ALL REFRACTORY NEEDS With 35 per cent of the Italian refractory market, SANAC SpA is an industry leader at national level, as well as being a successful exporter, as Barbara Rossi finds out. Quality, price and immediate delivery of products are the differentiating factors working in the company’s favour.
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ANAC (Società Anonima Nazionale Argille e Caolini) SpA has been working in the refractory field since 1939, having been established as a state-owned minerals company by IRI (Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale) in Sardinia. The company was privatised in 1995 and today belongs to the Riva Group. With its wide range of products the company practically covers the totality of refractory applications. It operates from
four sites, all based in Italy, and has a production output of about 200,000 tons a year, a yearly turnover of €150 million and 400 employees. It manufactures a wide range of the refractory products necessary for plant construction, maintenance and operation in a variety of sectors, ranging from steel, pig-iron, non-ferrous metals and glass, to cement, lime, ceramics, petrochemical, chemical, chimneys, boilers and incinerators.
One of the company’s works is located in Sardinia, while the other three are based in northern Italy. The Gattinara site, north-western Italy, specialises in the production of aluminous fired and chemically bonded bricks, basic resin bonded fired bricks, aluminous and basic unshaped materials, products for bottom casting, zirconia spouts and special pieces. The Sardinian plant, Grogastu, also manufactures aluminous fired and chemically bonded bricks, alongside Al2O3-SiC-C, Al2O3-MgO-C and
