Nippon Steel Corporation

Harima Ceramic Co. Ltd.

Takashi Genba

Toshihiro Isobe

Teruyuki Nishitani

Osami Matsumoto

An alumina-spinel monolithic refractory consists essentially of 50-90 percent by weight of alumina clinker, 5-40 percent by weight of MgO--Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 spinel clinker not larger than 1 mm in size and 1-25 percent by weight of alumina cement. Another alumina-spinel monolithic refractory consists essentially of 50-90 percent by weight of alumina clinker, 5-40 percent by weight of MgO--Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 spinel clinker, 1-25 percent by weight of alumina cement and not more than 5 percent by weight of magnesia clinker. The alumina-spinel monolithic refractories are used for lining the inner walls of ladles, vacuum degassing vessels, hot-metal mixers, blast-furnace troughs and their covers, not-metal mixer cars, tundishes and the like.

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Aichi, Japan

Takashi Genba