Rolling method to produce a metal strip (P) in coil-to-coil, semi-endless or endless mode, in a rolling plant (10) comprising: a continuous casting device (11) to produce slabs; a furnace (16) configured to maintain the slabs at a certain temperature and/or to heat the slabs; at least one roughing stand (25) to reduce the thickness of the slabs and obtain an intermediate rolled product; a plurality of finishing stands (31) to reduce the thickness of the intermediate rolled product and obtain the strip (P); a rapid heating device (28) interposed between the at least one roughing stand (25) and the plurality of finishing stands (31) to heat the intermediate rolled product in each operating mode, so that the temperature of the strip (P) in correspondence with the outlet of the last finishing stand (31) is comprised between 830 C. and 860 C.

The invention concerns a method and a plant for obtaining strips (S), wherein the plant has at least three casting lines (11, 12, 13) disposed in parallel, of which two are lateral (11, 13) and one is central (12), and at least two rolling lines (14, 15) aligned with two of said at least three lateral casting lines (11, 12 13).

A method for producing an ultra-thin strip of less than 0.8 mm from cast steel in batch/continuous operation with a casting-rolling system. The method includes casting a thin slab having a casting thickness of 90-150 mm and width of at least 1000 mm at a casting speed of 7 m/min. The thin slab is heated/homogenized to a first temperature in a continuous furnace and subsequently rolled by at least seven final roll stands into an ultra-thin band. Neither the thin slab nor strip undergo inductive heating during production. The thin slab rolling steps include rough rolling the thin slab at the heated/homogenized first temperature by a roughing stand; heating/homogenizing the rough-rolled thin slab to a second temperature by a further continuous furnace; and finally rolling the rough-rolled thin slab at the second temperature to the ultra-thin strip by the final roll stands arranged downstream of the further continuous furnace.