Industrial Minerals


Luoyang Refsource Industry & Trading Co. Ltd

October 2011

by Alex Feytis

Refsource supplies Chinese refractories materials to the domestic market in addition to exporting worldwide. Jie Hua Liu, general manager, talked to IM about China’s potential and the fierce competition from suppliers’ new trading divisions

Keywords: Trading faces, Refsource, China


Jie Hua Liu, general manager

Luoyang Refsource Industry & Trading Co. Ltd (Refsource) was established in 2006 as a key company engaged in manufacturing unshaped refractories including castables, gunning mixes, ramming mixes, self-flowing castables, and precast blocks as well as inÊinternational trading, technical consultation and service in refractories.

In 2008, Refsource joined Henan Winna Industrial Group Co. which was established in the 1960s with total annual capacity of 200,000 tonnes of various refractories for blast furnaces and hot blast stoves as well as for torpedo car and hot metal mixer.

Refsource deals with light weight hollow balls and lightweight aggregates for light weight castables. The company also exports high alumina bricks, andalusite bricks, fused cast AZS blocks, insulating bricks and insulating boards from China.

Refsource supplies the domestic market for lightweight aggregates and monolithic refractories, in addition to overseas markets including Italy, Russia, the USA, Pakistan,...