Abstract: A rolling cut metal shearing apparatus is described in which the starting and, or end position of a shear blade is varied according to the width, position and thickness of material to be cut, thereby optimising the stroke of the blade for the material dimensions. This provides for shorter cutting times, reduced volumes of hydraulic fluid and increased throughput.

Abstract: Method for thermo-mechanical controlled rolling of metal slabs to plates or strips, in which for two successively rolled slabs the time gap between the starts of their rolling phases 1 is always smaller than the sum of the duration of all rolling phases and all cooling phases of the rolling pattern, and in which during rolling the batch it occurs on at least one rolling mill stand several times that a rolling phase applied to one slab or plate or strip is succeeded by a different rolling phase applied on another slab or plate or strip. In the apparatus for thermo-mechanical rolling according to that method the number of storage positions is half the interleave depth of the performed rolling pattern rounded up to an integer.