ECONOMIC PRODUCTION OF STAINLESS-STEEL STRIP IN STECKEL MILLS

Small production lots and product-specific characteristic features in manufacture require hot wide stainless steel strip production units specially designed to meet customers' requirements. Previous inadequacies of the Steckel mill have been eliminated. Modern hightech components derived froin the conventional hot strip mill. e.g. hydraulic roll gap setting, automatic strip profile and flatness control systems, create the prerequisites for a clear improvement of product quality. Projects in Sweden and Taiwan confirm the suitability of this mill type. Concrete conceptions of the connection of the Steckel mill to modern thinslab and strip casting processes (CSP and CPR processes).