Eco Fast Roller for Continuous Casting & Continuous Casters

The Eco Fast Roller is a groundbreaking solution designed to optimize continuous casting efficiency. By integrating multiple innovative concepts into a unified product family, the Eco Fast Roller serves as the foundation of the Extra Long Life (XLL) Family. Enhancements to rollers, bearing units, and rotary joints have been combined to deliver a comprehensive range of benefits that work seamlessly together. This cutting-edge innovation enables metals producers to lead the way in productivity, material conservation, and adaptability to evolving operational demands, all while achieving significant reductions in maintenance costs.

Improving Performance to Meet Changing Demands

Various factors influence performance in continuous casting. To address standard challenges and provide fully customizable solutions for specific needs, Primetals Technologies developed the Eco Fast Roller: a modular roller design that incorporates several interchangeable components. These include roller jackets, shafts, bearing units, and rotary joints, offering more than 30 configuration parameters. This extensive flexibility allows the Eco Fast Roller to enhance performance in problematic areas while maintaining a standardized design where basic solutions suffice. The result is a cost-effective solution tailored to individual requirements.

Advantages of the Eco Fast Roller

Cooling is a critical factor in continuous slab casting; several unique jackets, shafts, and rotary joint variants have been developed to improve roller cooling across various steel grades Higher load capacity, combined with the ability to compensate for axial movement and misalignment, provides a competitive edge Extra Long Life (XLL) bearings and bearing units significantly reduce maintenance costs by minimizing both planned and unplanned downtimes; the high-quality design and materials extend the interval between segment changes and increase reliability designed specifically for continuous slab casting but adaptable to other continuous casting sections.

Benefits of Eco Fast Roller from Primetals Technologies

• Cheaper than conventional rollers
• Up to 30% higher load capacity
• Up to 30% fewer planned and unplanned downtimes
• Different sleeve surfaces optimized for specific requirements
• Significant cooling improvements with multiple stages available
• Five pre-defined variants with customizable options for on-demand designs