Ceramics are made from clay and then dried and fired to make them hard. There are two main areas of the ceramics industry:

1. Heavy clay products: bricks, roofing and hollow tiles, earthenware pipes and other building materials.

2. Pottery products including sanitary and electrical ware but also decorative tiles and table ware.


Great care is needed when firing most pottery products because:

1. soot or ash must not damage the ware

2. sulphur oxides can ruin certain colours and glazes

3. some types of ware need a reducing atmosphere during gloss-firing.


LPG is the ideal fuel for use in firing pottery and ceramics which can be adversely affected by soot and sulphur oxides in other fuels. Added to this is its efficiency and heat controllability.