Abstract: An apparatus for the production of a platelike metal material includes a cooling unit for cooling a molten metal to form a metal slurry containing a solid phase, a pair of coarse rollers for cooling the metal slurry and, at the same time, rolling it to thereby give rise to a continuous, solidified, platelike metal material, and a cutting mechanism for cutting the continuous, solidified, platelike metal material into platelike metal materials of a stated length. Thus, platelike metal materials containing numerous uniform spherical crystals are obtained.