The invention concerns a method and a plant for obtaining strips (S), wherein the plant has at least three casting lines (11, 12, 13) disposed in parallel, of which two are lateral (11, 13) and one is central (12), and at least two rolling lines (14, 15) aligned with two of said at least three lateral casting lines (11, 12 13).

Continuous casting apparatus, comprising a mold and a crystallizer for the continuous casting of a metal product. The mold is provided with primary cooling means using a cooling fluid and associated with the walls of the crystallizer. A plurality of cooling members is installed downstream of the mold to perform a secondary cooling of the product, said cooling members comprising a plurality of delivery nozzles configured to deliver a liquid for cooling the product.

A cutting position control device according to an embodiment includes an arithmetic processing circuit that receives an input of first data relating to a production schedule and material information of a material to be produced, uses the first data to calculate a first cutting position of a first cutter for a first slab cast by continuous casting equipment, generates a first parameter for setting the first cutting position for a control program introduced to a process control device, and determines whether or not to use a second cutter to further cut a second slab of a second length cut from the first slab based on the first parameter by comparing the second length and a first length set to be from a front end of the first slab to the first cutting position, wherein the second cutter is located downstream of the first cutter.

Described herein are 6xxx series aluminum alloys with unexpected properties and novel methods of producing such aluminum alloys. The aluminum alloys are highly formable and exhibit high strength. The alloys are produced by continuous casting and can be hot rolled to a final gauge and/or a final temper. The alloys can be used in automotive, transportation, industrial, and electronics applications, just to name a few.

An apparatus for producing and further processing slabs of a metal, preferably steel, comprises: a continuous casting apparatus, which is designed to produce at least one cast strand and to transport it in a transport direction; a cutting device, which is arranged behind the continuous casting apparatus, as seen in the transport direction, and is designed to cut the cast strand into slabs; at least a first route and a second route, which implement, at least in some portions, different process lines for the further processing of the slabs; and a process control system, which is designed to make a route decision on a slab-specific basis as a function of at least one measured or calculated process parameter, which route decision assigns one of the plurality of routes to the respective slab, and to initiate the further processing of the corresponding slab along the assigned route.

Disclosed are a hot-rolled steel plate/strip with sulfuric acid dew point corrosion resistance and a method for producing the same, wherein the hot-rolled steel plate/strip comprises the following chemical elements in weight percentages: C: 0.02-0.06%, Si: 0.10-0.55%, Mn: 1.5%, P0.03%, S0.007%, Ti: 0.03-0.15%, Cr: 0.50-1.20%, Ni: 0.10-0.30%, Sb: 0.04-0.30%, Cu: 0.20-0.60%, N: 0.004-0.010%, Als: <0.001%, one or both of Sn: 0.005-0.04% and B: 0.001-0.006%, Mn/S250, total oxygen [O].sub.T: 0.007-0.020%; and a balance of Fe and other unavoidable impurities. The steel can be widely applied to the fields of tobacco baking apparatuses, air preheater heat exchange elements in industries such as petroleum, chemical industry, electric power, and metallurgy, delivery pipe, flue, and stack manufacturing structural parts, and boiler preheater and economizer equipment, of which the use environments have requirements for sulfuric acid dew point corrosion resistance performance.

A continuous casting method for steel and a continuous casting machine for steel are disclosed. A continuous casting method for steel includes: applying rolling reduction to a cast piece to be continuously cast at a rolling reduction rate of 0.3 mm/min or more and 2.0 mm/min or less in a range where a center solid phase ratio being a solid phase ratio in a thickness center of the cast piece is at least 0.2 or more and less than 1.0, in which a segment deflection T being a deflection in the thickness direction of a segment frame of the segment (18) where the rolling reduction is applied to the cast piece satisfies Equation (1).

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A device for producing hot-rolled metal strips has a casting machine that produces and transports slabs in a transport line of the casting machine. A rolling mill forms the slabs into corresponding metal strips during transport along a transport line of the rolling mill. A combination transport and temperature-influencing device is arranged between the casting machine and the rolling mill transports the slabs at least along the transport line of the rolling mill, feeds the slabs to the rolling mill and sets the temperature of the slabs to a rolling temperature. A surface device is arranged between the casting machine and the combination transport and temperature-influencing device and processes and/or treats and/or inspects at least one of the surfaces of the slabs. A temperature-influencing device is arranged between the casting machine and the combination transport and temperature-influencing device and modifies the temperature of the slabs.

The system described herein relates to working a metal casting strand that is round in cross-section, by reducing the cross-section in the final solidification region with the aid of at least three forming tools which are distributed around the circumference and act simultaneously on the casting strand. In order to provide advantageous working conditions, the casting strand is formed by forging tools constituting the forming tools in a longitudinal portion for each forming stroke, which portion corresponds to at least a fourth of the strand diameter before the reduction in cross-section. The forging tools are rotated by an angle step about the axis of the casting strand 1 between the forming strokes.

A method relates to producing metal strips by casting rolling. A slab (3) is first cast in a casting machine (2). The slab (3) is cleaned in a cleaning device (4) placed after the casting machine (2) in the conveying direction. The slab (3) then undergoes a heat treatment in a heat treatment device (11). Between the cleaning device (4) and the heat treatment device (11), the slab (3) undergoes a smoothing process by means of two interacting smoothing rolls (13, 14). In order to reduce energy and production costs and to improve the surface of the slabs prior to the first forming process, the smoothing process is carried out such that the slab (3) does not undergo a substantial reduction in thickness, and the roughness depth of the smoothed surface of the slab (3) is reduced.