What Is Chamotte, Why Is It Important?

What Is Chamotte?

Fireclay; obtained by cooking refractory clay and / or other raw materials and then re-grinding; thus, it can be defined as a pre-strength calcined raw material that contains no organic matter and salts.

What Does Chamotte Add To The Brick?

The use of chamotte beads, which are classified in different sizes, in the structure of the brick, makes the structure composite material, and increases the strength values much higher than the standard values and thus increases the resistance to fracture, abrasion and cracking.

For example, if the material is a type of brick used on the floor; Since the material will work under load, it will show high performance against abrasion, fracture and cracking. Most important of all; is the performance of the bricks against frost resistance.

Technical Information

Why Brick?

We can say that the use of the first brick goes back as far as human history. B.C. The history dating back to 2500 years and the fact that these products have reached to the present day gives us a lot of information about the soundness and health of the brick. In the northern part of Germany, 250-year-old bricks and roof tiles are still functional in cold climates. The first industrial product...

Why Ekos Clinker Bricks?

Ekos Clinker Brick products, A.T.S. Firebrick Industrial plants are produced. This is due to the implementation of the brick clinker production techniques are unique and one in Turkey. Fireclay-based firebricks are produced by mixing refractory clays with pre-calcined fireclay raw materials and sintering at much higher temperatures than normal bricks and tiles. Although cost-increasing, this m...

Frost Resistance

What is Frost Resistance? It is the pressure to be applied to the brick during the freezing and thawing of the water contained in the material by the weather conditions. When the water freezes, it expands by volume and occupies more space than its volume. When the water in the brick freezes in this way, it exposes the brick to an internal pressure. Therefore, it is important for the brick to a...

Efflorescence

What Is Efflorescence? What we call whitening in brick; dissolves the soluble salts contained in the bricks when they come into contact with water and transports the salts to the surface of the bricks during the drying of the bricks. Where Do These Salts Come Into The Brick? Bricks can contain these salts in two ways. 1) If salts are present in the adhesive and joint sealant material used d...