Abstract: A roll stand arrangement for rolling wire with a finishing block arranged following the last stand of the intermediate group of a wire rolling mill and composed of fixedly connected roll stands with grooved rolls, and a skin pass block arranged following and having the same configuration as the finishing block, wherein the roll stands of the skin pass block have an oval/oval groove sequence and a subsequent round groove sequence. The sequence of grooves in the roll stands of the skin pass block is composed of two, three, four or more oval/oval successive grooves and, directly following these oval/oval successive grooves, one or two round successive grooves.

Abstract: In the continuous rolling of wire from a heated billet in a continuous wire-rod mill in which the rolled product passes through the rolling stand of a roughing line and an intermediate line, the finish rolling is effected in at least one finish rolling line having double rolling stands with respective pairs of horizontal and vertical rolls. The double stands or units are spaced apart and along a portion of the spacing between them, rolling stretches are provided.