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- IFGL Refractories Limited manufactures, trades, and sells specialized refractories and related equipment for steel plants in India and internationally; it serves as a total refractory solutions provider primarily for the iron and steel industry with products including raker plates, granshot tundish systems, desulphurisation lances, torpedo ladle solutions, basic oxygen furnace refractories, electric arc furnace refractories, electric steel making systems, ladle and tundish refractories, fluxes, continuous casting refractories, slide gate refractories and systems, monolithics, precast shapes, zircon and zirconia nozzles, casting fluxes, purging systems, tube changer refractories, cast products, and foundry ceramics such as round hole filters, hipercast, EXHOF feeder heads, and SiC-DC casting products. The company operates manufacturing facilities in India across Gujarat, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh, as well as subsidiaries and production units in China, the UK, Germany, and the USA, serving more than 300 customers in over 50 countries with a workforce exceeding 3,000 employees; founded in 1979 and headquartered in Kolkata, India, it functions as a subsidiary of Bajoria Financial Services Private Limited and traces promotional roots to the S.K. Bajoria Group of India and Krosaki Harima Corporation of Japan. Recent developments include the incorporation of IFGL Marvel Refractories Limited as a greenfield project to expand into cement, glass, non-ferrous, and gasification sectors through a strategic partnership emphasizing local 'Make in India' production; ongoing capacity expansions such as doubling isostatic refractories output to 40,000 pieces at the Kandla plant and increasing Vizag plant capacity to 7,400 tonnes by fiscal 2024; inauguration of a Research and Technology Centre at Kalunga, Odisha, for product innovation; past acquisitions like UK-based Sheffield Refractories to enhance flow control solutions; and management changes with the appointment of Subbaraman Swaminathan as Vice President - Projects in September 2025 and resignation of CHRO Navin Kumar Das in October 2025.