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Hot strip mill

Conventional hot strip mill with slab pre-heating furnace.

De-scaling equipment followed by one or several

breakdown stands and a 5 to 7 stand finishing section
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Steckel rolling mill

Steckel rolling mill with and without breakdown stand.

One- or two-stand Steckel
Double-edged coil boxes for temperature control and heating-up
possibility
Hot strip mill without breakdown stand. Slabs move directly in a semi-
liquid state into the finishing section.
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CSP plant

Hot strip mill without breakdown stand.

Slabs move directly in a semi-liquid state into the finishing section.

According to the manufacturer the plants are described as CSP

(Continuous Strip Production), ISP (Inline Strip Production), ESP (Endless
Strip Production) or DSP (Direct Strip Production). The abbreviations
mentioned are registered trademarks of the relevant manufacturers.
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Heavy plate rolling mill

Heavy plate rolling equipment can in principle be structured in the same

combinations as a Steckel mill.

The width of the rolling material is usually much larger than in the Steckel
mill. Combination rolling mills are also described as Steckel plate mills.
 Semi-finished casting products

Ingots are large rough Blooms have rectangular cross

castings designed for sections. Bloom is that the cross
storage and section must be greater than 36
transportation. They are sq. inches.
tapered, usually with the
big-end-down

Slab can be considered as a Billet is a length of metal that

special case of Bloom i.e a Bloom has a round or square cross-
with lesser thickness. A slab is section, with an area less than
rolled from an ingot or a bloom 36 in2 (230 cm2). Billets are
and generally has a rectangular created directly via
cross section of about 250 mm by continuous casting or
40 mm. extrusion or indirectly via hot
rolling an ingot or bloom.
 Plate: material 3/16 [5.00 mm] and over in thickness and over
10 [250 mm] in width;

Sheet: material under 3/16 [5.00 mm] in thickness and 24

[600 mm] and over in width;

Strip: cold-rolled material under 3/16 [5.00 mm] in thickness

and under 24 [600 mm] in width.

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