Continuous casting plants for copper

When it comes to producing slabs and extrusion billets in large volumes, vertical continuous casting plants from SMS group are the ideal solution. These plants achieve an annual capacity of up to 150,000 t of copper or brass products. They are especially attractive to companies that require the highest product quality at the greatest possible capacity levels.

This guarantees customer high productivity levels with low production costs. Whether it's slabs or extrusion billets made from copper or brass – SMS group technology delivers maximum, consistent product quality. Continuous further development of this type of plant means minimal maintenance is required. What's more, SMS group has continuously refined the plant's user-friendliness.

Frequently changing casting schedules require top plant flexibility. That’s exactly what you get from these plants. They come with up to 6 strands and an annual output of as much as 120,000 t. You can cast lengths of between 3 and 12 meters – with slab widths reaching 1,300 mm and billet diameters of up to 450 mm. Our semi-continuous casting plants handle a wide range of copper alloys as well as all copper grades. Simply adjust the solidification conditions to the requirements of your copper alloy. This mainly concerns the cooling rate.

It's the perfect combination to fit your wants and needs: the benefits of both horizontal and vertical casting in our precision casting plants. The synergy between these two systems means you can manufacture products with small and medium dimensions in uniform quality and excellent dimensional tolerances. This stock is particularly suitable for further processing on automatic lathes.

You can rely on our horizontal continuous casters for extrusion billets to achieve top productivity and product quality. These machines cast a variety of copper alloys – such as brass with and without lead, specialty brasses, copper-nickel, and DHP copper. Due to extensive automation, they require little manpower. Furthermore, our casters are highly flexible in terms of production capacity. All this makes horizontal continuous casting plants from SMS an attractive option. Here you can choose between one and up to four strands. Out of these factors evolves an annual capacity of over 100,000 t per year.

Together with our Technica brand, SMS group is the pioneer in wide-strip continuous casting plants. We have banked a wealth of experience with over 100 reference projects. These horizontal continuous casters produce strips 10 to 20 mm thick and up to 1,050 mm wide. Included among the materials they can handle are bronze, brass, nickel-silver, copper-nickel, aluminum-tin and other alloys. We complete your casting plant with inline milling machines, shears, strip upcoilers, and strip bending machines.

Our continuous casting plants are inherently flexible enough to cast various types of cross sections – for example tubes, profiles, and wire rod. That means you can process typical alloys such as brass, copper, bronze, copper-nickel, nickel-silver, and other precious metals.