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  • 2025.Jul01

    Allied Mineral Products Acquires ACTCHEM® Technology

    Allied Mineral Products Acquires ACTCHEM® Product Line

    COLUMBUS, OH July 1, 2025 – Allied Mineral Products, LLC has purchased the intellectual property rights to ACTCHEM® – a family of abrasion resistant technology used in industrial applications and well known in the HPI industry.

    ACTCHEM®’s innovative technology and product line, including advanced binder systems and specialty additives, will strengthen Allied’s product offerings globally with solutions for petrochemical, energy, and mineral processing industries.

    This investment demonstrates Allied’s commitment to being the preferred supplier to the refining and petrochemical industry.

    Allied Mineral Products, LLC is a leading global manufacturer of monolithic refractory ceramics and cast refractory shapes with 14 manufacturing facilities in eight countries, seven precast shapes facilities, and two research and technology centers. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Allied serves a wide variety of industries with innovative refractory solutions and exceptional service and support, backed by expert engineering and research teams, with sales in over 100 countries.

    Source: Allied Mineral Products, LLC

  • 2025.Jun30

    Allied Mineral Products, LLC Acquires Industrial Ceramic Products, Inc.

    COLUMBUS, OH June 30, 2025 –

    Allied Mineral Products, LLC (Allied) has purchased Industrial Ceramic
    Products, Inc. (ICP). The acquisition will allow Allied to further its strategy of increasing applications
    diversity, capacity, and expansion into precision, high-fired refractory shapes markets. The acquisition
    includes all ICP’s product lines, equipment, facilities, grounds, and employee base.
    “ICP is a natural to join the Allied family,” said Paul Jamieson, President and CEO of Allied. “We have
    been each other’s’ customers and we have partnered with ICP on various projects for over 50 years. They
    have a strong management team, a highly tenured workforce and expertise in precision high-fired ceramic
    shapes. Their skill in manufacturing high quality ceramic refractory shapes is well known in our industry.
    Culturally we are very aligned.”
    “Allied’s acquisition of ICP creates opportunities to offer the ICP product lines to a broader customer base
    in the U.S. as well as globally to the many international markets Allied currently serves,” said Jamieson.
    “We recently celebrated ICP’s 89th year of quality manufacturing. We are proud of what we and our
    employees have accomplished over the years,” said John Odenthal, President of ICP. “As the
    marketplace continues to be more competitive, we realized we needed to align with a strong company to
    ensure we could continue to serve our customers and provide security for our employees. With this sale,
    we know our customers and employees will benefit, and that is especially important to us. We are excited
    that Allied’s global manufacturing network and worldwide sales presence will provide a platform to market
    the ICP product lines internationally. We could not be in better hands.”
    “With this acquisition, we add a highly skilled workforce and plenty of room to grow and expand at ICP’s
    current location in Marysville,” said Jamieson. “We have profound respect for what they have achieved at
    ICP. There is immense value in the brand and in the name, and we look forward to carrying on their
    tradition of great products and customer service. That is why we will continue producing products under
    the ICP name for the foreseeable future.”
    ICP’s production facility in Marysville, OH joins Allied’s existing US manufacturing operations in
    Columbus, OH; Brownsville, TX; and Pell City, AL.

     
    Allied Mineral Products, LLC is a leading global manufacturer of monolithic refractories and precast, prefired refractory shapes. With this acquisition, Allied now has 15 manufacturing facilities in 10 countries,
    eight precast shapes facilities and three research and technology centers. Headquartered in Columbus,
    OH, Allied serves a wide variety of industries with innovative refractory solutions and exceptional service
    and support, backed by expert engineering and research teams and over 165 sales representatives
    globally. Allied is proud to be an employee-owned company since 1976.
ABOUT CHM
Chun Hwa Metal Products Corp., Ltd was established in 1975. CHM has represented the world's leading brands and manufactures refractories, acid resistant materials and other equipment for Taiwan and Southeast Asian markets. CHM also provides technical support, after sales service and the latest market information to our customers.

We supply various industries including Casting, Chemical, Petrochemical, Aluminum, Steel, Incinerator and Cement etc.
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CHM supply all kind of refractories, such as bricks, castables, gunning materials,plastics and mortar. We support our customers with rapid delivery, professional furnace refractory installation and industrial know-how.
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In addition to commonly available industrial accessories, we also supply customized products based on customer needs. Our product range includes accessories for aluminum, petro-chemical, steel, cement and heat-treatment industries.
Refractory
CHM supply all kind of refractories, such as bricks, castables, gunning materials,plastics and mortar. We support our customers with rapid delivery, professional furnace refractory installation and industrial know-how.
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CHM is appointed as an authorized agent for the sale of RESCO to the Hydrocarbon Processing Industry (HPI) in Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
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CHM, with a complete product selection and extensive refractory construction and installation experience, can provide you a wide array of professional services.
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