Solutions with promise. The key features you get from our modern hot strip mills are high productivity, broad product variety and excellent product quality – all at a low maintenance outlay. That’s because our solutions build on our many years of experience and numerous innovations in rolling and automation technology. And it means our hot strip rolling mills are designed to meet growing demands for better strip quality, versatility, cost-effectiveness and production performance. Not only that, but they offer you scope to meet future market challenges. Annual output rates of up to 5.5 million t of hot strip, enormous versatility in strip dimensions, a broad range of grades right up to high-strength tube steels and stainless steel strip – these are the standards we apply both to our new plants and to our efficient revamps.

Everything from one source. You can relax, because we custom-plan your state-of-the-art hot stripmill just for you, yet based on tried-and-tested plant components. What helps here is that our supply range covers the mechanical equipment for the rolling mills and auxiliary facilities plus the appropriate electrics and automation. Our experienced staff support you with erection and commissioning. Naturally, we also build complete, turnkey hot strip rolling mills. And it doesn’t stop there, because even after commissioning you can count on our Service division for long-term support.

Example of high-performance mill configuration:

• Primary descaler
• Slab sizing press
• 1 to 2 reversing roughers with edgers
• Heating hoods (active or passive)
• Strip edge heating
• Crank shear
• Secondary descaler
• Roller side guide
• 7-stand finishing mill with CVC^® plus technology
• Laminar strip cooling with Edge Masking (optionally in combination with compact cooling)
• Coiling stations with Automatic Step Control
• Coil transport devices (including binding and marking)
• Measuring systems (thickness, width, profile, flatness, temperatures, surface quality)
• X-Pact^® automation system