4. Conclusion
As Julian Szekely said in 1994, "the stage is now set for the industrial introduction of strip casting in stainless steel production"
Five years have passed since then, and at the end of 1998 Nippon Steel announced that its Hikari plant had been upgraded from pilot to commercial production status. However, the level of production is still of the same order of magnitude as that of pilot plants of equivalent size, which probably makes it impossible to envisage this plant operating profitably in the short term. The external growth which characterizes the current restructuring of the world steel industry has called into question the suitability of this new continuous strip casting technology for the strategy of the companies thus reconfigured. The short-term commercial future of the major projects...
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All the figures quoted in this paragraph can only be considered as orders of magnitude, and it would therefore be imprudent to compare them with each other, since they are based on different assumptions. They are merely an attempt to express quantitatively the fact that the production chain is greatly shortened by strip casting, both from a technical point of view...
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Figure 5 shows the development history of continuous strip casting.
Time moves from the left to the right of the figure.
Unilateral arrows indicate a merger or direct collaboration....
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