What is a rolling mill?

His purpose?

A rolling mill is an equipment that realizes the metal rolling process, and generally refers to the equipment that completes the entire process of rolling material production.

The rolling mill mainly rolls unshaped metal blanks into the required shapes of metal materials such as pipes and plates.

It is named according to the rolling variety, rolling mill type and nominal size.

The principle of "nominal size" for profile rolling mills is named after the pitch circle diameter of the gear seat herringbone gear; the roughing mill is named after the nominal diameter of the roll; the plate and strip rolling mill is named after the length of the work roll body; the steel pipe rolling mill is named after the maximum production capacity

Named according to pipe diameter.

Sometimes it is named after the inventor of the rolling mill.

Related information: Rolling mills can be divided into two-roller, four-roller, six-roller, eight-roller, twelve-roller, eighteen-roller, etc. according to the number of rollers; according to the arrangement of the rollers, they can be divided into "L" type and "T" type.

Type, "F" type, "Z" type and "S" type.

Ordinary rolling mills are mainly composed of rollers, frames, roller distance adjustment devices, roller temperature adjustment devices, transmission devices, lubrication systems, control systems and roll removal devices.

In addition to the main parts and devices of ordinary rolling mills, precision rolling mills also have added devices to ensure rolling accuracy.