avicmr-steel

 When wire is rolled up into the form required by the client it is known as a 'coil' but this term, widely used within the steel industry to describe a roll of steel is somewhat ambiguous and can be confusing.
Stainless steel is initially produced in slabs, which are then put through a conversion process using a Z mill, which converts the slab into coil prior to further rolling. These wide stainless steel coils including hot rolled stainless steel coils and cold rolled stainless steel coils and are typically made at around 1250mm (sometimes a little wider) and are known as "mill edge coils".
These wide coils are further processed using a range of manufacturing techniques such as slitting, where the wide coil is slit into a multitude of strands; this is where much of the confusion around the terminology comes in. After slitting, the stainless steel forms a batch of coils taken from the mother coil and these are referred to by many different names, including strip ... [More Information]