Abstract:Continuous casting billet?casting tundish??problems in?Honghe steel Co., LTD. was introduced. The service life of?the casting tundish?is directly related to the use of straightening?machine, it?also has a great impact on?the quality of casting billet and?production cost. Causes that affect service life of the casting tundish were analyzed and countermeasures were put forward. Practical results were obtained through these measures. By side discharging method, metal yield was increased by 0.5%, the mean life of tundish was greatly improved, the annual cost reduction was more than one million two hundred and seventy thousand yuan. In the increasingly severe situation of steel industry, it is of great practical significance.