Method for producing a continuous strip-shaped composite material

A method for producing a continuous, strip-shaped composite material, the method comprising:

• (i) providing a base material, whereby a slab is continuously formed from a strand produced by at least one casting machine, and providing at least one cladding material formed as a metal strip by a coil unwinding unit,
• (ii) bringing together the slab produced by the at least one casting machine and the cladding material unwound by the coil unwinding unit, and
• (iii) hot rolling the slab and the cladding material, which have been brought together, to form the continuous, strip-shaped composite material via roll cladding,
• wherein, before step (ii), the slab is descaled and the cladding material is cleaned and/or descaled,
• wherein, before step (ii), the slab and/or the cladding material are heated by means of an induction heater to a temperature greater than respective crystallization temperatures of the slab and/or the cladding material,
• wherein, before step (iii), at least one of the slab and the cladding material is guided through a protective gas unit,
• wherein a surface temperature of at least one of the slab and the cladding material is increased by a thermal radiator arranged upstream of and directly adjacent to a roll-cladding unit at which step (iii) begins and downstream of the protective gas unit,
• wherein the base material is continuously and vertically cast in the casting machine and exits through an opening of a mold of the casting machine into a strand guiding system having cooling,
• wherein the coil unwinding unit is accommodated in a heatable chamber and the cladding material wound thereon is thus heated to a predetermined temperature.