Abstract: A striking process for a plasma beam at high temperature which includes an enclosure between two torches located at opposite sides of the enclosure and outside the enclosure, a stick-electrode introduced lengthwise through a window of one of the torches and brought near the opposite torch until the plasma flame hooks to the stick-electrode, thereby closing between the nozzle and the stick-electrode the circuit of a superimposed current, then pulling the stick-electrode progressively from the enclosure, carrying with it the plasma beam until it meets a second torch which is energized at the very moment of extraction of the stick-electrode, and then disconnecting the stick and closing the laminar plasma flow circuit.