Continuous Casting, Cast and Roll

A casting technique in which a billet, bloom, bar or other shape is continuously solidified while it is being poured. For production of wire rod, strip and sheet, molten metal is poured from the ladle, pouring spout or pouring trough into a cooled die or a complex casting machine in a form of a continuous mold, from which a solidified strand is produced and made to follow a roller path where it may be cooled by means of water sprays. It then enters a multi-stand rolling mill where reduction of the cast cross-section takes place by hot rolling until a rod strip/sheet is obtained.