10 March 2026 - 37th Anniversary For Trent Refractories

Founded 37 years ago on 10th March 1989, Trent Refractories remains a global market leader for refractory precast and monolithic products for casthouses and steel producers world wide.

Life started with a brand new facility which was part of an enterprise zone at the time and remains our manufacturing base today. Robert Crossland founded the company in 1989, having a background in refractories and a previous business that was sold to Steetley and later to Lafarge, he wanted to continue to service the needs of the steel industry. Some of our first customers were within the Greek and Finnish market who we still service today. What were the first products in 1989? Our first items of precast were Launders and Taphole blocks.

Back in 1989 the Berlin Wall fell leading to democracy in Eastern Europe, George Bush Senior became US president, Nintendo Game Boy was released, Taylor Swift was born and Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web with Sky Television also going live. Watch our video presentation to see where we are as a business in 2026.

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