Upcast~R continuous upward casting is forty years old. The Upcast story began in the late 1960s, when casting directions were typically downward or horizontal; cast products were large in cross-section and required further processing in numerous downstream steps. At Outokumpu's Pori (Finland) plant, research began into casting rod or tube that was closer to the size of the final product. The initial development work culminated in 1968 with the first successful upward test casting. Two years later the first production line was installed at the Pori foundry. The second line, commissioned for an outside customer for copper alloys, followed a year later.
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