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To validate her end-of-year diploma of DUT Chemistry, Cynthia aged 20 years old, completed her two-month training at Manoir Pîtres, a foundry in Normandy. The factory links with the school and regularly offers internships. Although this subject is a bit far from chemistry, her study tutor validated it with the training organisation. Cynthia is enthusiastic about this first experience in the factory. Supervised during her training by Pierre-Emmanuel Nioche, Excellence manager, Cynthia’s mission is…

Manaurite® XAl4 is sold all around the world. 26 different locations decided to upgrade their metallurgy with Manoir Industries’ alumina-forming alloy. Furnaces are running for several years now and all clients are reporting lower pressure drop, lower TMT and tremendous run length extension compared to standard chromia-forming metallurgies. These unmatched performances are due to the finely tuned chemical composition of the alloy that enables the formation of a highly stable and highly protective Al2O3 layer at its the surface under…

This picture below is showing the full trial fit of a cold collector prior to breakdown and dispatched for painting, packing and shipping from our Manoir UK shop. The project has been awarded to Manoir Industries by a South Korea customer. The total contract includes 5,200 man-hours. Cold collectors are normally located at the bottom of the furnace, produced in Cr/Mo materials, internally lined with heat resistant refractory and are used for transferring process gases to the waste heat boiler. These…

Outreau Technologies, Vossloh Cogifer group  and Manoir Industries extend their partnership agreements for the rail market and confirm their willingness to work in close cooperation. This historic relationship is based on decades of mutual trust. For years, Manoir Pîtres, Manoir Industries’foundry, develops and manufactures for Outreau Technologies, Vossloh Cogifer group, critical components to equip railway network worldwide. The team is proud to confirm this agreement with one of the flagship of the rail industry such as Outreau Technologies, Vossloh…

This year, because of the COVID-19, and as many other conferences, the European Ethylene Producers committee (EEPC) seminar had to take place virtually in November 2020. Suez Water Technology & Solutions (Suez WT&S) and Manoir Industries did take advantage of this opportunity to present a case study showing the latest field results of their Yield-up® anti-coking coating applied on Manaurite® alloys in radiant coils after almost two years of service. 65 people from leading petrochemical…

Westinghouse ordered to Manoir Pîtres, 3 mock-ups (scale of 1) of sand cast elbows as studies for the aged elbows in place in the 900MW power plants to evaluate the mechanical properties after several years in service. The project is split into three stages. Manoir Pîtres produces two stainless steel centrifuged tubes of 6-meter long with 891-mm rough outside diameter and a 115-mm thickness in rough state. They…