9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

In 2016 a new 5-strand bloom caster was installed and successfully commissioned by Inteco melting and casting technologies GmbH at Jiangsu Shagang, Shagang Group (CN). The CCM is designed to cast section size 300 x 390mm on a 9m vertical bending-unbending machine equipped with latest SBQ-Technology. Besides other features, a tundish design with optimised liquid steel flow distribution, large corner radius mould tube design, powerful M-EMS combined with 9 Modules for dynamic Mechanical Soft Reduction place the CCM at a unique level to produce blooms at high productivities with flawless surface quality and excellent internal quality (large equi-axed zone, low inclusion level and low segregation level), esp. required for tire-cord grades. First metallurgical results of the new CCM will be presented