New process for the production of grain oriented electrical steel from thin slabs

摘要

A careful definition of the steel composition, in particular shifting to low values the content of elements such as carbon, sulfur, aluminum and nitrogen, allows to lower the temperature of some process steps, thus limiting also complexity and cost of relevant plants, and to reduce the influence of the solidification structure on the final quality of the product. If is thus possible to utilize also for grain oriented silicon steels the thin slab continuous casting technique.