Coupled with our worldwide customer base and world-class partners, our team brings a wealth of knowledge, hands-on experience, and expertise to offer you high-temperature solutions. Our goal is to help you increase run time, minimize scrap, and maximize profits so you can run a successful business.

Russell Smith, Jr., IPI Inc.’s owner and an industrial engineer himself, started our materials engineering company by engineering calcium silicate. Today, we offer high-temperature insulation and high-temperature ceramic installations for business in the metals industry, nationwide. Our family owned and operated company is also an exclusive distributor of calcium silicate board out of Germany. We serve the metals industry with exceptional materials, updated machining, and sound engineering.
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