Liquid steel is brought to the continuous caster in a ladle. In the caster, the still liquid steel passes through a mould and then through a sequence of ‘segments’, during which its vertical path out of the ladle and the mould gradually becomes horizontal, as it cools. It then emerges as a continuous slab of steel, solid now but still red hot. The continuous slab is then cut to length into semi-finished products known as blooms, billets or slabs.
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