History
Refractory materials have been produced in Decin for more than one hundred years. The factory was built in 1889 as the Bodenbach plant of the DIDIER group. Until 1970 the plant was specialised in production of fireclay made from plastic body, which was principally intended for use in gas and coke industries, with the annual capacity of up to 35.000 tons. After the modernization of kilns and pressing machinery, the factory changed its production technology and started to manufacture refractory materials based on fireclay, kaolinite, sillimanite, mullite, cordierite and silicon carbide grogs.
The company SILIKE keramika spol. s r.o., was established in 1992. Nowadays, the Keramika Decin factory has 120 employees and produces 8 000 to 10000 tons of fired aluminosilicate, cordierite, and silicon carbide refractory materials a year. The dominant technology of semi-dry pressing is primarily aimed at a production of hollow and large-size products, which often require more demanding shaping.
