Steckel Mill, also known as a reversible finishing mill with more than 70 years of history. It is similar to a reversing rolling mill except two coilers are used to feed the material through the mill. One coiler is on the entrance side and the other on the exit side. The coilers pull the material through the mill, therefore the process is more similar to drawing than rolling. The material is fed back and forth through the mill until the desired thickness is reached, much like a reversing rolling mill.
This mill is originally designed for the production of thin plate, and in recent years due to the development of automatic control technology, the new design concept is to unified moderate thickness plate and hot rolled plate, also be rolled as stainless steel and stainless steel clad plate.
Steckel Mill generally is classified upon product specification, that as rolling mill working roll body length, defined into small typed mill, heavy duty rolling mill, and large mill.
In the Steckel mill, several passes have to be taken to get the desired reduction. The Steckel mill has quality problems due to temperature losses. The rate of production in a Steckel mill is lower than a tandem mill.
TSR Rolls produce ICDP and Enhanced ICDP material for Steckel mills.