The Greater Missouri (STL) Section and the Refractory Ceramics Division of The American Ceramic Society will sponsor the 61st Annual Symposium on Refractories on the theme “Refractories for Non-Ferrous Applications” on March 31 – April 1, 2026, and a kickoff event (TBD) will be held the evening of March 30, 2026. The meeting will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Hilton St. Louis Airport Hotel. Co-program chairs are Dan Gower of Refractory Minerals and Kimberley Peterson of Christy Refractories.

The final program and agenda can be found at the link below.

2026 Agenda-Program

Please note that a meeting of the ASTM International C-8 Committee on Refractories will be held on Wednesday afternoon on April 1st, 2026, starting at 1:00pm. Contact Melissa Marcinowski at mmarcinowski@astm.org for more information on this meeting.