Word: hotstrip
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...AUTOMATED ROLLING MILLS. In the most widely used of steel's new bag of tricks, everything in a half mile of machinery is computer-controlled. At hotstrip mills, such as Inland Steel's at Indiana Harbor near Chicago, a serpent-like tongue of red-hot steel is shot at up to 44 m.p.h. through rollers that squeeze it out from 32 to 3,560 ft. and thin it from ten inches to less than one inch in four minutes. At the end of the line, a coiling machine rolls the steel spaghetti into a compact bundle. This automated...
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