This article describes the latest advances at the “Vulkan-TM” Scientific-Industrial Association in the production of steel-casting systems and equipment for the secondary treatment of steel. It covers the main stages in the development of the company’s innovative technologies, including a discussion of the advantages and design features of its state-of-the-art slide gates and equipment that protects steel from secondary oxidation. Special attention is given to the direction of its refractories business and the most recent progress in that area.
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1From materials of the International Conference of Refractory Specialists and Metallurgists (March 19 – 20, 2015, Moscow)
Translated from Novye Ogneupory, No. 10, pp. 13 – 17, October, 2015.
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Zolotukhin, V.I., Golovko, A.G., Gordeev, E.I. et al. Russian-Made Steel-Casting Systems and Refractory Production Facilities at the NPP “Vulkan-TM”1 . Refract Ind Ceram 56, 456–460 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11148-016-9868-y
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