Horizontal Casting Plants

The Universal Caster for ingots, busbars, t-bars and billets

The fully continuous HDC process is ideal for automation. Sawing, weighing, hard stamping, ink marking, labelling, stacking and strapping is carried out without any additional manpower. During past years the plants have been improved consistently and now feature automatic cast starts and stops as well as automatic tundish adjustment.

Quality Attributes

Low hydrogen, extremely low oxide inclusions
Fine uniform grain structure
Consistency and uniformity of alloying elements content and distribution
No gravity segregation
No cracks, shrink holes and water inclusions
consistent dimension, straightness and weight
Smooth surface, easy for stacking and strapping compact bundles

Benefits

High safety level, no water explosion hazard
Optimized pouring trough for minimum melt turbulence and oxide formation
No mould skimming required
Uniform shrinkage during solidification
Mould temperature adjustable prior metal pouring
Enhanced air cooling for optimum solidification (eutectic alloys)
Air cooled moulds are not subject to temperature shocks
No exposure to water – almost unlimited service life of moulds
Low labour and maintenance cost