With the new furniture, the company has achieved over 150 passes without recoating. If you have a kiln solely for firing cups, as many as 50,000-60,000 cup chums might go through that kiln. If you have to recoat those cup chums every six or seven passes, you'll need an army of people to accomplish the process. And then there's the possibility that some of the chums will be damaged during handling and recoating. It's difficult to quantify just how much it costs to recoat kiln furniture because it's always done in-house.
Nobody really sits down and works out what the true cost is.
But in this age of trying to push through as much production as possible, using a non-stick body can have tremendous benefits. The Dycor Process Recognizing the need for more durable, thinner and lighter weight refractories in the ceramic industry, researchers have devoted themselves to advancing the way kiln furniture is made in an effort to meet these needs. This has resulted in a new kiln furniture manufacturing process that provides increased refractory homogenization with a significant improvement in strength. Kiln furniture made through this new process provides benefits in both primary and secondary applications. Extruded hollow batts can be produced thinner than conventional systems but with the same load-bearing capacity.