Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing hot-worked elongated products, such as bars or tubes, from high-alloy or hypereutectoid steel in which a feedstock is heated to a deformation temperature and undergoes at least one deformation step. Following the at least one deformation step, the deformed feedstock is either cooled or heated at a specific temperature to achieve a uniform temperature distribution throughout the length and thickness of the deformed feedstock. Next the deformed feedstock is reheated to a temperature below the deformation temperature. The reheated feedstock is continuously rolled in a multi-stand reducing mill to its final size and then cooled by ambient air.

Abstract: A novel method and a novel apparatus for continuously forming a very long tube with precise internal and external dimensions from a metal tube blank by reducing the internal diameter of the blank to that of an internal mandrel on which the blank is telescoped, preferable by cold forming the blank onto the mandrel and immediately thereafter, drawing of the tube while it is still on the mandrel to its final external dimension; with no annealing taking place between the two steps.