Cooling plate for a metallurgical furnace

A method for manufacturing a cooling plate for a metallurgical furnace, the method including the following steps:

• providing a cooling plate body having a front face and an opposite rear face;
• providing a connection pipe having a pipe channel that is straight in an end portion of the connection pipe;
• providing a receiving bore in the cooling plate body that extends in a bore direction from a rear opening on the rear face towards the front face;
• and
• inserting the end portion of the connection pipe through the rear opening so that it is form-fittingly received in the receiving bore, thereby connecting the connection pipe to the cooling plate body,
• wherein at least one coolant channel is provided inside the cooling plate body, so that at least adjacent the receiving bore on a first side thereof, the coolant channel is spaced in the bore direction from the rear face by a cover thickness of a cover portion and extends in the bore direction over a width, the coolant channel communicates with the rear opening and the receiving bore extends from the rear opening into the coolant channel, and when the end portion is received in the receiving bore, it extends into the receiving bore in the bore direction beyond the cover thickness and is form-fittingly received along at least a portion of the width of the coolant channel, which form fit prevents movement perpendicular to the bore direction with respect to the cooling plate body.