Glossary

Long, semi-finished product of continuous casting of less than 150 mm square / round section. It is used in house-building industry and railroad construction after being transformed into bars, angles and sections.

Large and long piece of steel mostly produced by continuous casting with a square or rectangular cross section of minimum 150mm. Blooms can be further processed into sections and profiles and used in railroad construction and offshore industry as well as for tube making.

Pouring machine having a hole in the bottom through which flows molten metal . The control of the flow is done by the stopper device.

Dangerous incident on a continuous casting machine due to the sticking of the metal onto the mold’s wall, which causes the molten metal to splash.

The aim of this operation is to anticipate the spilling of molten metal on a continuous casting machine by auto healing of the skin and through thermal conditions control within the mould.

Change in the liquid volume below the mould due to periodical deformation of the metal shell between extraction rolls.