9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

Dillinger has put into operation a new continuous caster. The fully vertical machine is equipped with 2 strands of a nominal widths of 2200 mm. The thickness varies from 300 to 500 mm in 50 mm increments. Each strand consists of 9 segments allowing the caster to align the slab optimally at any position during the casting process. Soft reduction adjustment of the segments guarantees lowest levels of segregation and microporosity. The steel solidifies in the vertical part of the caster deploying intensive water cooling. The strands are cut to length with horizontal torch cutters. The resulting mother slabs are tilted into horizontal position and transported to a roller table by crane for bur removal. The new caster offers the following advantages: - a maximum slab thickness of 500 mm, - solidification solely in vertical orientation - and a fully vertical casting process that no longer requires bending and unbending of the strand.