Metallic tubular products having improved collapse resistance are disclosed. The metallic tubular products are produced by compressive forming processes. The method comprises identifying the types of stress that can be applied in order to change the residual stress profile of metallic tubular products, such as those that have completed a straightening process, and results in a residual stress profile that improves collapse resistance. The metallic tubular products are subjected to radial compression processing to control the residual stress profile and to enhance collapse resistance. The radial compression process may be used after the tubular product has been subjected to a straightening process.

The invention relates to a finishing train for finish rolling hot strip. It is the object of the invention to modify an existing finishing train in such a way that the surface quality of the hot strip produced is improved without, however, significantly increasing the use of energy during production. This is intended to enable the thin hot strip produced to be used even for applications with high demands on surface quality. This object is achieved by a cleaning nozzle which cleans the upper side of the exit table, thus ensuring that scale and/or rolling dust are/is removed from the exit table.

A process and apparatus of producing a product having a wrought structure. The process comprises the step of: applying heat and a compressive load simultaneously to an application area of a cold spray deposition preform to transform the comprising consolidated particle structure into a wrought structure, the compressive load being applied laterally to the application area. The application of compressive load and heat to the application area raises the temperature of the material of the preform in the application area to between the recrystallisation temperature and the melting point of the material.

Provided is an induction heating device for a metal plate including: a first conductor member that faces at least one of a front surface or a back surface of the metal plate and that is disposed across the metal plate in a width direction; a second conductor member that is separated from the first conductor member by a first distance in a plate passing direction of the metal plate, that faces at least one of the front surface or the back surface of the metal plate, and that is disposed across the metal plate in the width direction; connecting members that connect the first conductor member and the second conductor member to each other at positions separated from width-directional end portions of the metal plate to form a primary closed circuit; and an AC power supply connected to the primary closed circuit, in which the first distance is larger than a sum of dimensions of the first conductor member and the second conductor member in the plate passing direction of the metal plate.

Induction furnace, method for operating, control program, and control device for an inducation furnace for heating planar rolled stock material made of metal. The rolled stock passes through the induction furnace in a longitudinal direction and extends transversely thereto from a first to a second rolled stock edge. The induction furnace has a plurality of module pairs which, viewed in the longitudinal direction, follow one another sequentially and each have a first and a second induction module. The induction modules, as viewed in the transverse direction, are positioned at a respective initial position, so that the first induction modules are arranged offset towards the first rolled stock edge and the second induction modules are arranged offset towards the second rolled stock edge. Induction modules are supplied with electrical power via respective power supply devices. A respective electrical target variable is defined for each induction module.

A process for producing metallurgical products, in particular at least of the merchant type, in which there are provided the steps of: a) producing a long casting product by means of a continuous casting machine; b) rolling said long casting product by means of a rolling mill comprising a plurality of rolling stand groups; wherein during step b), said long casting product is heated by first heating means exclusively arranged between one pair of consecutive rolling stand groups; wherein said first heating means are the only heating means between the rolling stand groups of the rolling mill; and an apparatus adapted to perform the aforesaid process.

A rolling mill facility includes: a support part extending along a plate width direction of a steel plate to be rolled; a thickness measurement part supported by the support part and configured to measure a thickness of the steel plate; and a heating part supported by the support part at positions at both sides across the thickness measurement part in the plate width direction and configured to heat both edge portions of the steel plate.