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Top 25 Refractory ceramic companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 263 refractory ceramic companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,122 professional contacts across them, including 2,367 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers refractory ceramic companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest refractory ceramic companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,836 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CoorsTek is the international partner of choice for companies requiring the unique, high-performance properties of products manufactured from engineered technical ceramics and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 750 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HWI is the largest supplier of refractory products and services in the United States, with a history that spans more than 150 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 398 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Unifrax, we provide innovative solutions to our customers' application problems across several different industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Resco Products has been servicing the refractory industry for over half a century and grown to 11 facilities across North America which gives us the unique ability to service our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 208 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NUTEC is a leading manufacturer of superior quality, high-temperature insulation and fire protection products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Magneco/Metrel, Inc.(MMI) is a worldwide refractory manufacturer with headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois, USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Harper International is a global leader in complete thermal processing solutions and technical services for the production of advanced materials, including Furnaces, Kilns…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Plibrico offers a full line of monolithic refractories, insulating firebrick and complementary refractory products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STC has been recognized as a market leading company in the material area since its start in 1898.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NorPro has been a trusted partner to high-performance industries for over 150 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blasch Precision Ceramics, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Abbott Furnace is an industrial furnace manufacturer with over 40 years of experience designing and producing some of the industry’s most reliable and high performing industrial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Onex is here to help with your refractory construction, combustion & industrial furnace, raw materials, and precast needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “McDanel Advanced Material Technologies is a leading manufacturer of high quality industrial and advanced technical ceramics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Swindell Dressler designs, builds, and commissions world-class, high-value, production scale industrial kilns, furnaces, dryers and ovens for firing ceramic materials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OUTSTANDING QUALITY, PROVEN TECHNOLOGY, & CUSTOMER-FOCUSED SERVICE FOR 50 YEARS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Industry Services was first established in 1985 in Mobile, Alabama.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Applied Ceramics exclusive material technology and sophisticated manufacturing capabilities provide outstanding performance benefits to the global Semiconductor, Solar, Fuel…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Thermcraft is an international leading manufacturer of thermal processing equipment including industrial and laboratory furnaces, industrial ovens, high temperature ceramic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Under the Fosbel family of companies, Wahl Refractory Solutions was originally founded by Oscar C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Superior Refractory Solutions, Expertise in the Safe Removal, Installation, and Supply of Refractories and Industrial Insulation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in Texas with Additional Locations in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida || Serving Industrial Plants Nationwide At Elite we handle every aspect of refractory installation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We specialize in mission-critical ceramics for challenging environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: refractory ceramic companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names refractory ceramic companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of refractory ceramic companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name refractory ceramic companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Refractory ceramic companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 263 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among refractory ceramic companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “refractory ceramic companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names refractory ceramic companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among refractory ceramic companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,367 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names refractory ceramic companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many refractory ceramic companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 263 refractory ceramic companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Coorstek, INC, headquartered in Golden, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most refractory ceramic companies?
Houston leads with 8 headquartered companies, followed by Charlotte (4) and Cleveland (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,367 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 263 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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