TAEWOONG successfully casts 1,000 millimeter round bloom on continuous casting machine from SMS Concast

摘要

The new three-strand continuous casting machine at TAEWOONG, South Korea, is designed for an annual capacity of 800,000 tons per year. With a casting radius of 18 meters the SMS Concast caster is able to cast round blooms in diameters from 310 up to 1,000 millimeters. This marks a historical milestone in steel production technology, as it is the first caster in the world producing 1,000 millimeter blooms in a bent continuous casting process.