Shaping solutions for tough raw materials Engineering and Lab Services Home Steele ResourcesEngineering and Lab Services The science behind the customer satisfaction There’s no standard raw material, but we have the experience and resources to classify your materials and design the optimal machinery and production process. Our global capabilities include lab and test plant services, plant and application engineering, system installation and custom die manufacturing. Laboratory and test plant services Simple solutions need reliable machinery. That reliability starts here with Steele lab and test plant services. Our engineers and technicians test raw materials for processing and continuous shaping, from lab-scale testing with 5 kg up to 20TPH in our test plant. Once we’ve qualified your materials, we recommend specific machines and a process for preparation and extrusion. These data-driven solutions give you machines that work from day one, delivering reliable, consistent production around the clock. With lab and engineering locations around the world, we can offer the convenience of local testing with networked technical resources for cost-effective solution development. We provide material analysis and tests on four continents — Australia, the U.S., Europe and South Africa. Steele lab and test plant services offer high/low tonnage crushing, feeding, mixing and extrusion application engineering. Data-driven solution development Our material analysis and testing include: Raw material receiving reports High/low tonnage crushing Feeding Mixing Mix and extrusion testing General extrusion testing Particle size analyses Attenberg plasticity evaluation Grinding, mixing and extrusion evaluations for product and process improvement Green strength evaluation and improvement Steele introduces its mobile test plant Looking at zero-waste steelmaking? We’re reserving slots for our new mobile test plant, to help mills and ferro alloy producers assess their by-products for use as furnace feedstock. A small footprint, stand-alone system built around our HD-10 extruder, the mobile test plant takes the capital risk out of feedstock development. This system comes with Steele engineering and raw materials expertise. We’ll work on-site with your furnace operators to engineer a consistent, high-quality feedstock, while recovering high-value metallics and carbon units. To date, Steele customers have found that our trials pay for themselves in recovered value — and even turn a profit. If you want to shorten your supply chain, reduce lost value, and reap the benefits of a circular economy, it’s time to look at stiff extrusion. For more info about our mobile test plant, talk to your regional Steele sales representative or contact us. Tell us about your material. Every raw material is different, so we need to know specific details to determine if stiff extrusion is right for your feedstock needs. Fill out our online material form and we’ll be in touch. Händle — 150 years of process engineering and extrusion innovation Our German subsidiary shares our commitment to long-term customer relationships. It has operations in Germany, Poland and Russia, and sales representatives around the world. Händle specializes in preparation and shaping solutions for heavy clay products. The company’s extrusion technology is well-suited for the production of fiber-reinforced, cement-bound construction materials. Like Steele, Händle makes a full line of material preparing and shaping solutions, with installation and commissioning, field service and preventive maintenance, in-shop repair and educational workshops. haendle.com Direxa Engineering — A global leader in manufacturing plants for heavy clay products and fines agglomeration Direxa is our EPC subsidiary, headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, with locations in Australia and Brazil. They provide plant and application engineering on all six continents, from small retrofits to turnkey plants. Their experience includes grinding plants, forming and shaping rooms, kilns and curing chambers and product handling equipment. In-house specialists provide electrical drawings, PLC programming and IT supervision. Direxa shares our commitment to responsive, personalized service, with ongoing customer support that includes troubleshooting, spare parts, plant upgrades and retrofits. direxa.com FOLLOW US ABOUT STEELE Our roots are in heavy clay, working with brick, block and tile manufacturers. That experience, along with our ability to add value to bulk raw materials, has driven our expansion into by-product management and resource recovery for iron & steel mills, ferro alloy mines and gypsum/wallboard producers. LEARN MORE RECENT NEWS Do you recognize this man? October 20, 2021 The difference between a machinery manufacturer and a solution provider. August 16, 2021 Can on-site metallurgical briquetting improve your by-product recycling? Our new mobile test plant removes the capital risk from answering that question. June 2, 2021 CONTACT INFO J.C. Steele & Sons 710 S. Mulberry St. Statesville, NC 28677 +1-704-872-3681 After-hours / 24-Hour Pager: 704–832–0455 CONTACT US © 2021 J.C. 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