About us

We are a globally operating Swiss company with headquarters in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, specialized in the manufacture of a wide range of advanced products used in different industries, such as the secondary metallurgy for the production of steel, stainless steel and high Nickel alloys, as well as the production of cement (white and grey) and those ones using Synthetic Cryolite as a raw material, like the abrasives industry.

INDUSTRIES WE SERVE

Steel / Stainless Steel production

Our innovative tailor-made AF-Series range of slag conditioners, which are fluorine based compounds chemically engineered with alumina, are the right choice for those companies looking for a better performant than traditional Fluorspar / Calcium Aluminates for their desulfurization needs, with many advantages over traditional Fluorspar / Calcium Aluminates, such as:

• less silica content, which helps to achieve a longer refractory life.
• more powerful: you need less product to desulfurize the steel and get the desired slag fluidity.
• Stable chemical composition.
• Lower melting temperature.
• It can be used in the EAF, AOD, LF, Torpedo, etc., just as you would use Fluorspar / Calcium Aluminates.
• C FREE: No extra CO2 emissions, which will help your company transition towards GREEN STEEL.
• Cheaper.

Serving many producers of steel and stainless steel worldwide, the specialists at AF Chemicals have extensive experience in steel desulfurization, based on many years of cumulative experience dealing with many partners worldwide, and can offer the best solution for your company, based on your particular needs, production processes, etc. This is why our products are tailor-made: we can, based on your needs and our experience, produce the performant that best suits the needs of your company to make sure maximum effectiveness is achieved.

Abrasives

Through our cooperation with outstanding universities as well as our internal R&D work and collaboration with our customers, we have developed an alternative to Synthetic Cryolite that can be used in many applications, like the production of abrasives.

With a very similar chemical composition to that of Synthetic Cryolite, our products offer the same performance* at much lower cost, helping to make your company more efficient and competitive.

Cement

Our F based products are the perfect match for the production of Clinker within the cement industry, since they offer more power per Kg of material added, when compared to Fluorspar, reaching the desired results at considerably lower costs. This will help to increase the competitiveness of your company through savings in the amount of product used and energy required, due to the lower melting point of the AF Series when compared to Fluorspar.