Saint-Gobain NorPro serves the oil and gas production, refining, petrochemical/chemical, and environmental industries with highly-advanced ceramic based products for fixed bed reactor processing, heat and mass transfer applications, as well as drilling and exploration.

Saint-Gobain NorPro has developed into a major international supplier with a distinguished 100+-year history, starting from its humble beginnings as a backyard pottery producer in Akron, Ohio in 1859. The company’s evolution started with U.S. Stoneware, then Norton Chemical Process Products (Norton Company), and now as Saint-Gobain NorPro (Saint-Gobain).

The company provides technology-driven ceramic solutions – material science knowledge, forming capabilities, and the ability to tailor materials to specific requirements. 

NorPro® Products/Brands

The company operates seven world class manufacturing facilities in three countries – the most recent facility addition located in Guanghan, China. Their global manufacturing facilities maintain the strictest product and material standards and provide the same consistent high-quality and outstanding service to customers everywhere

Denstone® bed support media for optimized reactor performance, economy and reliability.  Available in both spherical and shaped, known as Denstone® deltaP® support media for improved operating performance and cost-saving results through reduced pressure drop.
MacroTrap® guard bed media is highly-macroporous ceramic media for the prevention of premature pressure drop rise caused by particulate deposition on catalyst and adsorbent beds.
Bed topping media for fixed bed reactors includes traditional graded beds of Denstone® support media, as well as advanced materials and shapes such as NGBT® and Pentaring media, HSA alumina rings, and MacroTrap® guard bed media.
Catalyst carriers developed in a wide range of materials in cooperation for each customer-specific need.  Saint-Gobain NorPro is the world's leading supplier of merchant catalyst carriers.  Finished catalysts are installed in processing units called fixed bed or slurry bed reactors.
Thermal and heat management media (HexPak™, AF38™, Snowflake™, Ty-Pak™, Norton™ saddles) for regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTO) for new construction and revamps.  Media combines two critical components -- both shape and material composition for overall performance.
Mass transfer media, materials, and support assemblies includes Norton™ saddles, WavePak™, and Aludur® grid bars and grid blocks -- known all over the world for innovative design of products for mass transfer applications.

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