STAINLESS STEEL LONG PRODUCTS

Complete process flow Chart

STEEL MAKING HOT WORKING COLD WORKING

Billet/Ingot Billet/Ingot Work in progress Work in progress Work in progress
Charge Melting Elaboration Casting Conditioning Forging or Blooming Hot Rolling Heat Treatments (heat treated) (heat treated) Straightening Surface treatments Cold Drawing Peeling & Reeling Centerless grinding NDT Testing
Yard Yard (not heat treated)

Hot rolled coils - Wire rod

Scrap & Continuous Hot rolling Coils Muffle Shot blasting Wire rod
Casting CC Billets
Alloys in coils WIP furnaces & pickling testing

Treated Treated
Coils WIP Coils WIP

Electric Arc Coil to bar Cold drawn

Furnace Cold Drawing bars testing

Charge Conditioning Billets Billets Hot Rolling Hot rolling Continuous Coils
AOD (eventual) Stock Stock in bars furnace (coils)
Basket straightening

Blooms for rolling mills

Induction Ingot Casting Open die Forged material Bars Shot blasting
LF+VD Ingot Ingot car furnaces Hot rolled
Furnace (bottom pour) Stock Stock Forging WIP & pickling bars testing
Blooms for rolling mills

Blooms for market Continuous Treated bars Treated bars Black Bars Reeling / Peeled bars
Blooming furnace (bars) WIP WIP Peeling testing
straightening burnishing
Blooms for radial forge

Electrodes ESR Remelted Remelted

for Remelting Remelting Ingot Stock Ingot Stock

Radial Rotary forged material Not treated Bar to Bar Centerless Ground bars
VAR
Remelting Forging material Cold Drawing grinding testing

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