9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

Demands on high profits and low costs in steelmaking industries are increasing and increasing recently as a result of strong global competition. The continuous casting process has been a good solution until now because of a high yield, energy saving, and omission of blooming process. But there remains to be solved the problem of how to cast an extra large section size strand and high-alloy...

Danieli sets a new benchmark in continuous casting for largest round sections, after revamping of the CC3 machine in ABS plant (Italy). The startup in Huaigang (PR China) and Baosteel (PR China) as well as new orders of CCM in XiWang and revamping in YongGang confirm the constant market trend in increasing round section sizes for large radius CCM, endorsing the Danieli leadership in this...

Summary (200 to 300 words) should be concise and contain all sufficient information for a fair assessment: In recent years, Continuous Casting Machines for big round sections have found worldwide interest and many plants have been installed and commissioned. A significant driving force behind this development is the replacement of ingot casting with a more economic process; at the same time...

Segment Casting (SC) is a novel casting technology which combines the technologies and benefits of continuous casting and ingot casting, without limitations to steel grades to be produced. The bloom is vertically cast to a defined length and subsequently treated in-situ with various technologies until final solidification is completed. The key technologies are the combination of - A...

Continuous casting with bow type as well as vertical machines achieves high productivity and yield at high casting speeds. Nevertheless the speed is limited by metallurgical machine length and required cooling rates to achieve continuous production. This high cooling rates cause pronounced radial orientation of the crystallization front in the strand. Thus particularly at special high alloyed...