Tundish Slide Gate

Advantages:

  • Safer and more reliable casting system.
  • 100% auto start with tube change features and automatic restarts.
  • Combined controls for clogging steel grades (speed and flow control)
  • Better mould level stability and control due to nearly linear control curve (quality improvement).
  • Cheaper refractory plates (inserts for middle plates).
  • Highest degree of automatic possible – controls more accurate.
  • Less maintenance of mechanism (compensation for mechanical play).
  • Less production loss due to increased strand availability.
  • Increased sequence length (up to 10hrs) with level variation functions (SEN wear).
  • Less need for tundishes due to increased sequence length (cost ratios/optimal cost/ton).