The Hot Rolling Process - California Steel
finishing mills, which will roll the steel in tandem with one another. The workhorse roughing mill has 135" wide rolls for rolling 'broadside' (as the first roughing mill is commonly called) to make a slab wider. A 5,000 hp motor drives 42"-diameter work-rolls through 28:1 gears to reduce the slab's thickness by as much as 2-½".
