{"id":5919,"date":"2026-08-27T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/continuous-cast-product\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:18:43","slug":"continuous-cast-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/continuous-cast-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Cast Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Continuous cast product is a semi-finished metal product created by continuous mould casting in a <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/ingot-moulds\/\">mould<\/a>, and is further processed as a solid or hollow profile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Product forms: solid and hollow castings<\/h2>\n<p>Continuous casting delivers symmetrically and asymmetrically shaped solid and hollow castings. Depending on the withdrawal direction of the installation, a distinction is made between vertical and horizontal continuous casting.<sup><a href=\"#q1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>Materials<\/h2>\n<p>Continuous cast product is used for steel, aluminium and copper.<sup><a href=\"#q2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<h2>Semi-finished product and further processing<\/h2>\n<p>As a semi-finished product, continuous cast product forms the precursor to the finished product; for steel, DIN EN 10079 defines the terms for this product stage.<sup><a href=\"#q3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> Sheets, bars, tubes and profiles are produced from the semi-finished product by rolling or forging.<\/p>\n<h2>Distinction from sand casting<\/h2>\n<p>Continuous cast product is created in the mould, a reusable permanent mould made of graphite or a metallic material.<sup><a href=\"#q4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> Sand casting, by contrast, requires its own mould for every casting, see the &#8220;See also&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<h2>See also<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/continuous-casting\/\">Continuous Casting<\/a> &ndash; the casting process used to produce continuous cast product.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/continuous-cast-product\/\">Strangguss (German version)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"quellen\">\n<li id=\"q1\">Herbert H. Netzel: Induktionsofenhandbuch. 3rd ed., Eigenverlag IES, Witten 2003, p. 189, entry &#8222;Strangguss&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li id=\"q2\">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<li id=\"q3\">DIN EN 10079:2007-06, Definition of terms for steel products.<\/li>\n<li id=\"q4\">Herbert H. Netzel: Induktionsofenhandbuch. 3rd ed., Eigenverlag IES, Witten 2003, p. 112, entry &#8222;Kokillen&#8220;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuous cast product is a semi-finished metal product created by continuous mould casting in a mould, and is further processed as a solid or hollow profile. Product forms: solid and hollow castings Continuous casting delivers symmetrically and asymmetrically shaped solid and hollow castings. Depending on the withdrawal direction of the installation, a distinction is made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/continuous-cast-product\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continuous Cast Product<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-5919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5921,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions\/5921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutfoundry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}