The Hot Rolling Process - California Steel
and finally coiling up the lengthened steel sheet for transport to the next process. The Hot Mill rolls slabs weighing up to 30 tons between 30" and 74". Steel slab 8 to 9 inches thick and up to 36 feet long is rolled into strip as thin as 1/16 inches and up to a half-mile in length. Coils are produced with a 30"