Important Milestones
- 1965: 1st IRMA Trade Delegation to Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Thailand with Mr. S. N. Mukherjee as Chairman and Mr. N .K. Guha Ray as Deputy Chairman
- 1966: 1st issue of IRMA Journal published
- 1971: 1st I IRMA Seminar on Monolithic Refractories in April
- 1974: IRMA Directory of Members published for the first time
- 1975: 1st refresher course conducted
- 1979: 1st IRMA participation in Trade Fair (3rd IETF, New Delhi)
- 1982: IRMA Silver Jubilee otf IRMA celebrated
- 1983: 1st IRMA technical delegation to Japan
- 1984: Institution of IRMA cash award to meritorious students for refractory studies
- 1985: Institution of Lifetime Award for services to refractory industry (Dr. H.K. Mitra, former Head of Refractories Dept. of TISCO)
- 1988: IRMA receives Principal Membership of UNITECR
- 1990: Independent IRMA Secretariat established
- 1992: 1st export delegation to Bangladesh
- 1994: IRMA establishes its own office
- 1994: 1st IRMA sponsored cooperative research on zircon/zircon mullite
- 1996: 1st IREFCON organized by IRMA at New Delhi
- 1997: IRMA presented a paper on "Refractories Education in India" at UNITECR '97
- 2003: IRMA participates in international exhibition (METEC) for the first time
- 2004: 1st IRMA Award for Excellence
- 2005: 1st 10 day training programme for Junior Technicians organized at TRL, Belpahar
- 2008: IRMA celebrates its Golden Jubilee.
- 2010: IRMA conducted 10 weeks residential certificate programme on refractories application for freshers.
- 2011: Formal approval from Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India for the Chirkunda Refractory Cluster
- 2011: IRMA organizes a successful tour of MSME entrepreneurs to China
- 2012: Short Course on Refractories organised for the first time at the IREFCON'12
- 2013: IRMA sponsors Dalmia Institute of Scientific & Industrial Research to build a refractory workshop at Rajgangpur
- 2017: IRMA signs MoU with IIT BHU to start IIT BHU IRMA Centre for Excellence in Refractories
- 2017: IRMA engages external media agency for media promotion of domestic refractory industry as well as highlight the problems faced by them.