TYK Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of functional refractories and ceramics worldwide. It offers converter, molten steel ladle, hot metal ladle and torpedo car, secondary refining, gas blowing, ironmaking, casting, and flow control refractory products, as well as precast blocks, lance pipes, temperature measurement systems, and devices for steel, non-ferrous, and other industries. The company also provides fine ceramics, such as alumina, magnesia, zirconia, and silicon nitride and carbide; die-cast sleeves; graphite sheet, carbon tray, and special carbon materials; and NOTORP continuous copper sensor, NOTORP-G, and NOTORP-GII devices for iron and steelmaking, cast iron/nonferrous metal, chemistry, electrical and electronic equipment, car, food processing and agriculture, gas, and medical care industries. In addition, it offers engineering services; and analysis products, including atomic absorption photometer, infrared spectrophotometer, thermal balance, particle size distribution meter, multi-specimen specific surface area/pore size distribution measuring device, carbon/sulfur analyzer, scanning electron microscope, fluorescence X-ray device, X-ray diffractometer, and thermal expansion measuring device. TYK Corporation was incorporated in 1947 and is headquartered in Minato, Japan.