Tom Vert

Failure analysis takes center stage at 59th Annual Symposium on Refractories

By Amanda Engen / April 9, 2024

ACerS Greater Missouri Section and Refractory Ceramics Division held the 59th Annual Symposium on Refractories in St. Louis, Mo., March 26–28, 2024. Almost 240 members of the refractory ceramics community attended the meeting, which focused on unleashing refractory potential through root cause analysis.

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March ACerS Bulletin features exclusive excerpt from Tom Vert’s forthcoming refractories book

By April Gocha / February 18, 2016

March is just around the corner, but the March issue of the ACerS Bulletin will make you wait no longer.

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ACerS Division meetings offer technical programming on state-of-the art in brick, refractories, and cement

By Eileen De Guire / February 7, 2014

ACerS Division meetings offer technical programming on state-of-the art in brick, refractories, and cement.

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Refractory TTT—Top ten takeaways from Unitecr 2013

By Eileen De Guire / September 17, 2013

The organizers of last week’s Unitecr meeting were savvy in their choice of keynote and plenary speakers, choosing a refractory raw material supplier, a steelmaker, and a renowned consultant to the global refractories industry. Here are the tope ten takeaways.

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Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories 2013 (UNITECR 2013)

By / March 24, 2009

September 10-13, 2013 North American UNITECR Committee Tom Vert, Arcelor-Mittal Robert Crolius, The Refractories Institute Jeffrey Smith, Missouri University for Science & Technology Nancy Bunt, Kerneos Tentative Schedule Tuesday, September…

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