BILLET CASTING
Types Of Continuous Casting Machine
INDIA POWERMELT TECHNOLOGIES HAS REVOLUTIONIZED THE DESIGN OF MACHINE HEADS FOR BILLET CASTERS
The results demonstrate enormous improvements with respect to operational flexibility and maintenance costs. Our high-performance machine head offers top cast product quality and unsurpassed casting line reliability. Modular design ensures minimum size change and turnaround times in combination with maximum production and maintenance flexibility.
The benefits of Primetals Technologies’ billet casting solutions include:
- Modular design
- Highest production and maintenance flexibility
- Automatic, self-tightening water and utility connections for mold and oscillator
- Highest quality of the cast strands
- Retractable DynaFlex oscillator for mold exchange during casting
- Machine design for fast and safe mold exchange
ELECTRICS AND AUTOMATION FOR CONTINUOUS CASTING
India Powermelt Technologies offers a comprehensive range of sophisticated automation process control solutions, technological packages and process optimization models that cover all aspects of the continuous casting process.
One outstanding highlight with hundreds of installations worldwide is the well proven LevCon mold level control package. LevCon is the most precise mold level control able to look into the near future. Thanks to the advanced model algorithm, LevCon anticipates casting conditions and automatically adapts to changes. The result is maximum precision in continuous casting and a new level of plant reliability. The intelligent interaction between the advanced software and highly robust mechanical components improves safety and brings plant operators one step closer to fully automatic casting operation.
Further highlighted technological packages and process experts
- Quality Expert: a milestone in improved quality supervision, quality prediction and control
- Yield Expert: cut length/weight optimization for minimized scrap and optimized yield
- Nozzle Expert: highest accuracy in detecting clogged nozzles and broken hoses
- Equipment Expert: well-organized preventive maintenance for the caster equipment
- Speed Expert: optimal casting speed for increased throughput and improved quality
- Dynacs 3D: dyna Speed – advanced secondary cooling solutions
- Dyna Flex: hydraulic Oscillator for perfect surface quality
Get striking results with incremental investments
| Name | Short Description |
|---|---|
| Shape Mon Billet Bloom | Measuring solution for weight and geometry for billets and blooms |
| Powder Expert | Feeder with high precision powder control in the caster mold |
| Scrap Torch Cutting Machine | Environmentally clean scrap processing |
| CC Optimizer | Process optimization (Level 2) for continuous casting |
| Dyna Flex | Hydraulic mold oscillator for continuous casting |
| Lance Checker | Test and diagnosis system for liquid iron and steel measuring devices |
| Lev Con | Mold-level control with highest precision for continuous casting |
| Liqui Rob for Casting | Robotic solution for continuous casting machines |
| Osci Checker | Portable device for mold oscillation measurement in continuous casting machines |
| Mold Checker | 3D measurement for the inner shape of continuous casting molds |
| Mold Expert | Breakout pre-detection and mold monitoring |
| Osci Mon | Online monitoring of mold oscillation in continuous casting machines |
Wagstaff Billet Casting Systems
Wagstaff Billet Casting Systems are the foundation of high-quality billet production. The options are virtually endless, with diameters available from 110 to 1223 mm, and strand counts from 1 to 160 billets per drop. Hundreds of alloy compositions have been proven on Wagstaff casting systems, and the limits are continually stretched with new common and aerospace alloy development taking place in Wagstaff’s production-scale R&D casthouse laboratory.