9th ECCC European Continuous Casting Conference – ECCC 2017

Summary (200 to 300 words) should be concise and contain all sufficient information for a fair assessment: In recent times developments of casting technology for long products are heading increasingly in the direction of high speed casting resulting in significantly increased heat load in the mould. Heat loads exceeding the capabilities of a standard mould tube lead to overheating of the...

Cast-Endless rolling route for deformed bars is establishing as a reliable process for higher and higher productivity at lower operational costs thanks to the energy saving advantages. In IIC-Egyptian Steel Plant it has been started up a new turn-key steel plant designed for the world’s highest productivity of 75 t/h in an endless single line. Design capacity has been already exceeded...

Today’s and future steel industry challenges demand sustainability for the production of long products and aims for lowest energy consumption. Further the trend for the installation of small production units utilizing resources from a local area to serve the rolled products in local markets needs a very efficient process directly linking casting and rolling process. Ideally, this process...

WinLink is a pioneering technology from Primetals Technologies that allows both endless and semi-endless production of long products from liquid steel without interruption. The solution directly links a high-speed billet caster to a high availability rolling mill by using an advanced induction heating unit instead of conventional billet reheating furnace. GPH Ispat Ltd. in Chittagong /...

The core of CONSAFE is a safe and performant mould level sensor for open stream casting. The patented sensor array includes four thermocouples which are easily integrated into the wall of the copper mould tube. A state-of-the-art controller (ms-cycle) runs the CONSAFE algorithm. It evaluates the dynamic transients of the monitored temperatures and reliably converts the sensor readings into the...