[TheForge] ITC-100

[Dave Brown]

At 09:39 04/06/02 +1200, you wrote:
>What is this stuff, who makes it and so on? I asked the rep from our
>local Kaowool agents, and they knew nothing about it.
>  Does it go under other names?
>Geoff
>(New Zealand)

Geoff,

Here in the States it's sold by many ceramics suppliers, which is your best 
place to start your search down in NZ.  US headquarters for the outfit is:

International Technical Ceramics (ITC)
PO BOX 1726
Ponte Verda, Florida 32004
Phone: (904) 285-0200
FAX: (904) 273-1616

If you have potters down there, which I'm sure you do, you can probably 
find it through the supply houses.  It is an infrared reflector that is a 
surface treatment for your forge liner and, so I'm told, works as well 
coated on bricks or hard refractory as it does painted onto Kaowool or 
Kaoboard.  What it is not is a patching material or surface 
binder/stiffener for the ceramic wool (Kaowool or other brand).

Good luck in your search down there.

Dave Brown