METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH-SPEED CONTINUOUS CASTING PLANTS WITH A STRAND THICKNESS REDUCTION DURING SOLIDIFICATION

A method and an apparatus for continuous casting plants for producing strands whose cross-section is reduced during solidification. The continuous casting method for producing strands, wherein the cross-section of the strands is reduced during the solidification, includes casting into a mold, particularly an oscillating mold, and reducing the strand cross-section linearly over a minimum length of the strand guiding unit immediately underneath the mold, i.e., casting and rolling, and subsequently carrying out a further strand cross-section reduction through the remaining strand guiding unit, i.e., soft reduction, up to maximum reduction immediately in front of the final solidification or sump tip.