{"id":1766,"date":"2018-10-11T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:15:45","slug":"continuous-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/continuous-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Continuous casting<\/strong> is the continuous casting process used to produce <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/continuous-cast-product\/\">continuous cast product<\/a>: liquid metal solidifies in a cooled mould into an endless strand and is continuously withdrawn.<\/p>\n<h2>Mould and cooling<\/h2>\n<p>The liquid metal is poured into a short, intensively cooled mould.<sup><a href=\"#q1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> Primary cooling in the mould area forms a stable outer shell of the strand; secondary cooling follows outside the mould.<sup><a href=\"#q1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>Withdrawal<\/h2>\n<p>As liquid metal continues to flow in, already-solidified metal is withdrawn from the mould. This produces an endless strand, which is subsequently cut to length.<sup><a href=\"#q1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>Variants: horizontal and vertical<\/h2>\n<p>Continuous casting installations are distinguished as vertical or horizontal by their design.<sup><a href=\"#q1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>See also<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/continuous-cast-product\/\">Continuous Cast Product<\/a> &ndash; the product created by continuous casting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/stranggiessen\/\">Stranggie\u00dfen (German version)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"quellen\">\n<li id=\"q1\">MAGMA Gie\u00dfereitechnologie GmbH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magmasoft.de\/de\/loesungen\/strangguss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strangguss<\/a> (continuous casting, German only). Solutions page, accessed 27 August 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuous casting is the continuous casting process used to produce continuous cast product: liquid metal solidifies in a cooled mould into an endless strand and is continuously withdrawn. Mould and cooling The liquid metal is poured into a short, intensively cooled mould.[1] Primary cooling in the mould area forms a stable outer shell of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/continuous-casting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continuous Casting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}