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The introduction of continuous casting at OAO MMK was a historic event, marking the end of uneconomical chill casting. Thanks to the introduction of continuous casting in the oxygen-converter shop, improvement in casting-machine design, and expansion of the range of steel that can be cast, unique casting characteristics have been attained: high productivity (more than 10 million t/yr), long casting runs (up to 208 melts), infrequent accidents, low rejection rates of the steel, and high quality of the continuous-cast slabs. The introduction of continuous casting in the converter shop provided a stimulus to the reconstruction of the open-hearth shop as an electrosmelting shop and the installation there of two bar-casting machines and one slab-casting machine.
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Original Russian Text © R.S. Takhautdinov, Yu.A. Bodyaev, S.V. Gorostkin, D.V. Yurechko, V.M. Korneev, 2008, published in “Stal’,” 2008, No. 7, pp. 24–27.
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Takhautdinov, R.S., Bodyaev, Y.A., Gorostkin, S.V. et al. Development of continuous casting at OAO MMK. Steel Transl. 38, 556–559 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0967091208070140
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S0967091208070140