Semi-finished casting products are intermediate castings produced in a steel mill that need further processing before being finished goods. There are four types: ingots, blooms, billets, and slabs.
An aluminium ingot
Steel billets
An oxygen gas torch cutting a slab
Steel slabs
Continuous casting
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Continuous casting, also called strand casting, is the process whereby molten metal is solidified into a "semifinished" billet, bloom, or slab for subsequent rolling in the finishing mills. Prior to t
Semi-finished casting products
…pipes. A billet is a length of metal that has a round or square cross-section, with an area less than 36 in2 (230 cm2). Billets are created directly via continuous casting or extrusion or indirectly via hot rolling an ingot or bloom. Billets are further processed via profile rolling and drawing. Final products include bar…
The macrostructure of continuously cast copper (99.95% pure), etched, ∅ ≈ 83 mm.
Sketch of thin-strip casting plant.
Continuous hot vertical casting in process (aluminum)
Molten aluminum pours into this casting die (top view of die)