Nippon Steel Corporation

Hideharu Bando

Hiroshi Ikegami

Ichiro Shimbashi

Ko Kumai

Koichi Asano

A continuous cold rolling and annealing apparatus for a steel strip so that interruption of a cold rolling mill part does not directly cause a continuous annealing furnace part to be interrupted, in which apparatus at least one cold rolling mill is located upstream of the entrance of a continuous annealing furnace and an intermediate reel for supplying a spare steel strip coil to said continuous annealing furnace, is arranged between the cold rolling mill and the continuous annealing furnace.

Continuous cold rolling and annealing apparatus for steel strip

A continuously cast slab for steel sheets having excellent workabilities which comprises not more than 0.02% of carbon, not more than 0.6% of manganese, not more than 0.005% of sol. aluminum, not more than 0.005% of titanium with a reduced silicon content of less than 0.02% and a reduced content of silica inclusions and the balance being iron and unavoidable impurities and a method for producing the steel slab.

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Hideharu Bando