Duisburg hot rolling Iron Press Ruhr area steel steeleworks Thyssen-Krupp

Steelwork: Sizing press

On the recording, a sizing press can be heard processing crude steel billets in the hot rolling mill of the Stahlwerk (steelworks) of Thyssen-Krupp in Duisburg. In the hot rolling mill, the process of hot rolling is carried out, a metalworking process in steel production: rolling at high temperatures makes possible a significant reduction in thickness. For example, crude steel billets are reshaped into hot-rolled strip (a hot-rolled product with a rectangular cross section and a width of at least 600 mm). The crude steel billets, which have already been heated in the pusher furnace, are rolled into hot-rolled strip on a continuously running production line. In this process, the billets are shaped into the required size for hot rolling in the so-called sizing press. A sizing press enables the 1250 °C hot billets to be shaped into 12 standard sizes, optimally prepared for rolling.


Sound recordist: Konrad Gutkowski / Marie-Claire Fink
Video recordist: Konrad Gutkowski / Marie-Claire Fink
Photographer: Konrad Gutkowski / Marie-Claire Fink

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2010s
15.9 MB
1 min 30 s
2 (Stereo)
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44.1 kHz
1411 kb/s
16 bit
94 dB

Recorded on April 30, 2015
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
Duisburg, GERMANY
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