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Prairie Ceramics operates a 14,000sf facility in the San Francisco Bay area dedicated to servicing furnaces and kilns in the materials processing industries. Our technical staff includes two ceramic engineers (from Clemson University & Iowa State) and a chemical engineer (University of California, Berkeley). Our experience includes over 20 years of equipment relining experience including extensive work on 1600C+ kilns lined with Bubble Alumina brick, fiber boards, modules, converting brick lined kilns to lightweight fiber linings, and relining both small and large laboratory kilns.

We also have extensive experience in converting equipment to different heaters such as from Silicon Carbide to Moly Disilicide elements and troubleshooting system problems in electric and gas fired kilns.

Equipment manufacturers whose equipment we have worked on include: