Development and results of a 400 mm thick slab caster

摘要

Watching the demand of steel industry customers shows the trend towards high demanding applications for heavy plates and pipe grades. These demands are challenging plant designers and producers along the whole production route. Siemens VAI has developed new concepts of bow type casters with straight mould for a thickness range of 250 to 400 mm and a width range of 1 600 to 2 400 mm. In June 2010, the world's first bow type caster with straight mould producing 400 mm thick slabs went into operation at Shougang Qinhuangdao in China.