Refratechnik celebrates its 75 anniversary
Proudly, Refratechnik celebrates its 75th anniversary with sincere thanks to all business partners and employees. What began in 1950 with the founding of “Steinwerke Feuerfest Karl Albert” in Vogelbeck near Northeim (Germany), has grown in 2025 to a global group of companies active in the refractory and raw materials industry, with more than 2,100 employees.
As the only family-owned company in the refractory business worldwide, Refratechnik pursues a value-oriented corporate culture, in which team spirit, expertise and competence, consistency, and close customer contact in particular, are of great importance.
75 years of Refratechnik are a renewed incentive to achieve and ensure the best for its customers.
The Refratechnik Group is a global network of companies, all active in the refractory and raw materials business. Its advanced refractory products as well its service and processing expertise are applied worldwide in all high-temperature industrial processes, for example in the cement, lime, ceramics, iron & steel, aluminium, non-ferrous metals, and glass industries.
The Group is a leading manufacturer of high-grade magnesia products. With globally unique deposits of cryptocrystalline magnesite in Australia, and macrocrystalline magnesite in Canada, it mines, processes, and delivers to customers worldwide, with a strong focus on sustainability.
Under the Holding roof, its individual companies jointly offer an all-inclusive portfolio of products and services.
