Experts in Unterneukirchen offer tailor-made metallurgical solutions Anyone who thought ASK Chemicals was a pure chemicals company is mistaken. In addition to the chemical production sites in Europe, Asia and America, the riser production in Germany, Spain and Turkey as well as the core manufacturing site in Fuldabrück/Moosburg- Germany, our production facility for metallurgical products is located in Southern Germany. More sparks fly at the ASK Chemicals Metallurgy location than in many foundries. At up to 1,700 degrees Celsius, Germany’s only ferrosilicon manufacturer produces metallurgical products in large submerged arc furnaces in Hart an der Alz. These products include master alloys and inoculants, particularly mold inoculants, and cored wires. The high temperatures are necessary to produce the main raw material for the alloys, namely liquid ferrosilicon, which is made out of quartz sand.