IFGL to set up research centre

Kolkata: City-based refractory maker IFGL Refractories has announced setting up its modern research centre at Kalunga in Odisha. James McIntosh, managing director, IFGL Refractories, said that the state-of-the-art facility will provide a world-class capability to complete fundamental research along with a metal melting facilities to enable confirmation of material, steel, slag interface reactions.

“At IFGL, we see the creation, tabulation, benchmarking and development of our own material intellectual property to be fundamental to our future growth. This research centre will give emphasis to basic research”, he said in a statement on Friday.