When a slab is properly heated, it is extracted from the reheat furnace, descaled, and then enters the steckle mill for a series of rolling passes reducing it to the desired final thickness.  Our mill is unique in that it performs the roughing and finishing passes with one reversing Four High Mill Stand.  A reversing mill reduces the slab in both the forward and backward direction. Our mill utilizes Steckle furnaces, which are located on both sides of the mill stand.

The strip will increase in length during rolling and with length comes temperature loss. At a gauge determined by the rolling model, the strip is diverted onto the Steckle drum inside the Steckle furnace.  The Steckle furnaces serve two purposes during the rolling process; first, provide an area for accumulating the strip and second, stabilize the strip temperature during the final rolling passes. Once the strip is reduced to the final desired thickness and temperature, the strip exits the mill and enters the laminar flow cooling area.

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