The 86" Hot Strip Mill is the
heart of CSI's operations, with an annual capacity of almost two million tons. The rolling
mill is more than a half-mile long and includes a walking beam reheat furnace, a two-high
scalebreaker, five four-high roughers, a crop shear, six four-high finish mills, and two
downcoilers. Equipped with an automatic gauge control system and technologically advanced
computer controls the hot strip mill can roll slabs of six to ten inches thick, into coils
ranging in thickness from .053" to .750", and widths of 27 to 72 inches wide.
Finishing facilities include a build-up line, a slitting line, a shear line, and a skin pass line. The latest addition to our Hot Strip Mill is a new walking beam coil handling system and cooling pond. The coil handling system will transport coils to either the finishing facilities or the cooling pond in high-speed coil cars, protecting the coil from damage. The cooling pond will quench cool hot coils in six to eight hours, versus three days, before further processing on the 62" Continuous Pickle Line.
The investments made have improved product quality, gauge control, yield and productivity.
For a list of specifications and other features of our Hot Strip Mill, click here.