For over a decade, Continuous Casting has been a mature
technology that has prevailed in the steel industry. Conventional
CC is still undergoing small but deep and subtle transformations.
Thin Slab Casting is developing at a rate commensurate with the
need of new capacity. Strip Casting has been limited to industrial
pilot lines, although commercial implementations have been
announced. In the perspective of the changes that the steel industry will have
to undergo in the 21st century (control of Greenhouse Gas
emissions in particular), continuous casting will be one of the
invariants to provide a degree of stability. Indeed, solidification will
most probably continue to be performed on continuous casters.