9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

Thin slab casting and rolling processes are well known and are permanently developed further since their introduction end of last century. Finding the optimum constellation to also economically operate and fully load the rolling mill part lead to different concepts, combining up to three casting strands to be fed into one rolling mill section. These different concepts are based on complex furnace constructions having numerous drawbacks. The key to simplify all these concepts is to reduce to a one strand concept. The basis therefore is a stable and high mass flow. The Arvedi ESP technology represents the benchmark technology in this field, reaching an mass flow leading to annual productions up to 3 Mt/a, allowed by the fully endless operation and several other technological highlights implemented at ESP casting machines. To give an insight, this paper is characterizing the advanced mold system including mold monitoring and mold level stabilizing systems.