The next stage after cold-rolling and recrystallization is skin-passing the stainless steel strip. This produces high-gloss surfaces and achieves the desired mechanical strip properties such as deep-drawing strength. Skin- passing is mainly performed on 2-high reversing mill stands. What’s evident today is that customers are increasingly choosing 4-high designs. You can also opt for a combined 2-high and 4-high stand solution.

There are two versions to suit various plant configurations: inline skin-pass mills are integrated in the annealing and pickling line and/or the bright annealing line, while offline mills are installed downstream.