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Nowadays the brickworks at Friden makes high-alumina refractory bricks and blocks which are exported worldwide for use by the heat containment industries, such as glass, cement, steel and petrochemical manufacturers. The company also supplies refractory minerals to other refractory manufacturers for
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International 'WGI' who had as West Gas Improvement formed the company in 1892 as Derbyshire Silica Firebrick Ltd to support WGI's gas development business by the manufacture of refractories for use in the production of town gas.
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DSF is also a processor and supplier of crushed and graded refractory raw materials for other applications such as coloured road-stone. By the 1960s, the business diversified into supplying other industries including steel, glass and cement.
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