EUROPEAN STEEL TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION DAYS 2017 - ESTAD 2017

The flat steel feed stock for final fabrication of steel products is mainly covered by cold rolled and final annealed or galvanized strips. Depending on the thickness and surface demands, also conventional batch processes can serve a certain but truly very limited ratio. The Arvedi ESP Technology is giving new impulses into this market. With this game changing technology it is suddenly possible to serve feed stock for numerous applications, which can’t be directly produced by hot rolling until now. Thinner and at the same time wider steel strips can be produced and are able to replace a high amount of cold rolled steel strips. Joint development efforts by Rizhao Steel and Primetals at recently started up ESP lines are setting new standards to cover also even more critical products for higher applications. The paper is giving an overview of results and products developed for direct applications.