(p288) Thin is beautiful -ESP to further develop the cold band substitute market

摘要

High-strength but lightweight car bodies, ultra-thin structures that possess the highest tensile strength, and lowestpossibleproduction costs - innovative processes are required to meet the demands for automotive and other highendsteel applications. After years of successful operation in Italy, and with five additional lines ordered from China,today Arvedi ESP is accepted as a proven technology that provides innumerable rolling possibilities to meet thehighest downstream requirements. The use of 0.8-mm-thin hot-rolled products as a cold-rolled substitute - eitherdirectly or by processing the hot-rolled coils in continuous pickling and galvanizing lines - makes the cold-rollingprocess unnecessary for many applications. Operational results of the new Arvedi ESP lines as well as possibleconfigurations for Arvedi ESP and processing lines are described.