Semi-finished casting products
Semi-finished casting products are
Ingot
Ingots are large rough castings designed for storage and transportation. The shape usually resembles a rectangle or square with generous fillets. They are tapered, usually with the big-end-down.[2]
Bloom
In the era of commercial
Billet
A billet is a length of metal that has a round or square cross-section, with an area less than 36 in2 (230 cm2). Billets are created directly via
Centrifugal casting is also used to produce short circular tubes as billets, usually to achieve a precise metallurgical structure. They are commonly used as cylinder sleeves where the inner and outer diameters are ground and machined to length. Because their size is not modified significantly, they are not always classified as semi-finished casting products.
Slab
A slab is a length of metal that is rectangular in cross-section. The slab is created directly by
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Anoxygen gas torchcutting a slab -
Steel slabs
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