The assembly employing flux concentration devices, is provided. and comprises a plurality of slotted annular slugs surrounding a tubular casting vessel within which a liquid metal column is to be levitated and solidified by cooling pursuant to the General Electric Levitation Casting (GELEC (TM)) process, Each of the slotted annular slugs is inductively coupled to a respective electromagnetic field producing coil having a large number of turns surrounding the slug. Each slotted annular slug serves to concentrate the magnetic field produced by its associated primary multi-turn coil. |