1. Reheating before metal forming
1.1 General
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The French steel industry produced around 18 million tonnes of steel in 1993, of which 13 million tonnes were flat products. By definition, a flat product is thin (generally less than 50 mm) compared to other dimensions.
Today, almost 70% of the world's steel is produced using the continuous casting technique, resulting in semi-finished products, either in the form of slabs for flat products, or blooms or billets for long products. The semi-finished product chain is shown in figure 2 .
On leaving the continuous caster, the semi-finished products reach a temperature of between 600 and 800°C; their thickness...
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CFE Congress, Induction and its industrial applications, Strasbourg, March 1991.
ATTT-CFE Congress, Induction treatment, Paris, December 1994.
CFE Congress, Induction in industrial processes, Paris, May 1997.
Competence centers in France
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IRSID Laboratory, Maizières facility.
CIREP, SACILOR Group.
École des Mines Nancy, Metallurgy Laboratory.
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AUTOMOBILES CITROËN, Direction Méthodes et Moyens Industriels.
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