clay tunnel kiln operative | drying tunnel operator | dryer kiln operator | tunnel kiln operator

coke quencher operator | coking furnace technician | coking furnace operator | industrial coke oven worker

lime kiln operative | running kiln operator | lime kiln operator | vertical kiln operator

sintering machine

sintering machine operator

sintering furnace [ sintering machine | sinter machine ]

sintering furnace

annealing-furnace operator | conditioning-furnace operator | normalizer

This paragraph does not include furnaces designed for the processing of semiconductor wafers.

Moreover, the substrate for DOC is a single block honeycomb cylinder whereas the DPF substrate is formed by gluing several filtering elements and the channels of the DPF are plugged, which is not the case for DOC. It follows then that the production of the DPF substrate necessitates a non oxide high temperature sintering furnace, gluing system and plugging machines and these equipments are not necessary for the production of the DOC substrate. It appears therefore that it is not possible to produce DPF and DOC substrate on the same production lines without significant additional costs.

As far as the price is concerned, the Commission supports the view of Saint-Gobain and the interested party with withheld identity in this regard and observes that there is a big price difference between substrates of DOC and DPF, since the materials used for the substrates for DPF are higher performance materials whose production implies higher costs (for example, the use of a non-oxide high temperature sintering furnace is required).

For the manufacture of DPF substrates a non-oxide high temperature sintering furnace, gluing and plugging equipment are needed, which are not necessary for the production of substrates for DOC. Thus, the interested parties argue that it is not possible to produce DPF on the DOC’s production lines or vice versa.