The article discusses the worldwide trend toward the production of continuous-cast slabs with a thickness greater than 350 mm. It is shown that the Russian economy needs to be able to produce such slabs, and several approaches to developing Russian-made continuous casters capable of making slabs of this thickness are proposed.
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The work was done together with colleagues from TsNIIchermet (A. D. Chertov and P. Yu. Zhikharev, the Center for Continuous Steel Casting; Yu. D. Morozov, I. F. Pemov, and O. N. Chevskaya – CEGD), Department MT-10 at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, the Uralmash Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, and the Italian company STG Group SpA.
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Translated from Metallurg, No. 8, pp. 64–66, August, 2014.
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Parshin, V.M. The Trend Toward the Use of Thicker Continuous-Cast Slabs for Special Products. Metallurgist 58, 669–671 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-014-9974-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11015-014-9974-3