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Contact Info

Address REF Minerals SIA
Kugu street 28-30
1048 Riga
Country Latvia
Phone 00371 2 6669239
Fax 00371 6 7509110
Email Get in contact with REF Minerals SIA
Internet refminerals.com
Year founded 1997

Contact Persons

Contact 1. Raitis Krastins
CEO, REF Minerals SIA
Phone: +371 26 412525
Contact 2. Marcis Pukitis
Purchase & Sales, REF Minerals SIA
Phone: +371 26 669239
Contact 3. Werner Odreitz
General Manager, REF Minerals GmbH
Phone: +49 173 26 50 500
Contact 4. Ilmars Krivads
General Manager, REF Magnesia SIA
Phone: +371 2 6668888
Contact 5. Janis Donis
REF Minerals Greater Asia and Pacific
Phone: +86 13 788937771
Contact 6. Kerstin Reiner
Managing Partner, REF Minerals GmbH
Phone: +49 173 2660070
Contact 7. Lauris Boss
REF Minerals SIA
Phone: +371 29 277 542

Products or Machinery

Refractory Recycling


Company Background / History

REF Minerals is an European based company operating worldwide since 1997, through its own subsidiaries and partners recycling secondary refractory materials.

Today REF Minerals operates in more than 50 countries mainly in glass, fiber glass, metallurgical and ceramic industries, offering following services:

  • Dismantling furnaces
  • Sorting refractory debris
  • Cleaning of materials
  • Waste management and disposal services
  • Processing secondary raw materials

We operate our own processing plants, enabling us to produce different sizes and qualities.

REF Minerals is a supplier of recycled secondary raw materials based on Zirconsilicate, Zirconoxide, Chromium, Aluminium oxide, etc. to serve the refractory and ceramic industries. We contribute saving natural resources and support our customers to benefit from sustainable reuse of reclaimed materials. Among our long term customers are most of the worlds leading refractory and ceramic companies.