The steel is handed through a pair of stacked rollers which stretch it. However, there are also rollers mounted on the facet to control the width of the slabs.

The slabs are then sent through a sequence of rollers on a hot mill and made into thin slender strips of metal known as skelp. As the slabs move by way of the rollers, they turn into thinner and longer. In the course of about three minutes a single slab could be converted from a 6 in (15.2 cm) thick piece of steel to a thin metal ribbon that can be a quarter mile lengthy. four Ingots can also be rolled into slabs in a course of that is similar to the bloom making course of.

A tube, or tubing, is an extended hole cylinder used for moving fluids or to protect electrical or optical cables and wires. To make them malleable, they are first heated to 2,200° F (1,204° C). This causes an oxide coating to kind on the floor of the slab. This coating is damaged off with a scale breaker and excessive strain water spray.

The rollers are mounted so that their grooves coincide, they usually move in opposite directions. This action causes the metal to be squeezed and stretched into thinner, longer pieces.

When the metal acquires the specified form, the uneven ends are cut off and the slabs or blooms are minimize into shorter items. three To produce a bloom, the ingot is handed via a pair of grooved metal rollers that are stacked. These types of rollers are called 'two-excessive mills.' In some cases, three rollers are used.