Abstract: A method of producing amorphous mother alloy is disclosed, which comprises charging raw material, carbonaceous reducing agent and secondary material into a smelting furnace and then smelting to produce Fe-B-Si series molten metal having a B-Si composition range which lies within an area represented by the trapezoidal area abcd shown in FIG. 2 of the accompanying drawings. The amorphous mother alloy is used to produce an amorphous starting material by diluting with molten steel.

Abstract: Grain oriented silicon steel sheets or strips having high magnetic induction and ultra-low iron loss can be obtained by the intermediate annealing cycle containing a rapid heating and rapid cooling just before final cold rolling, wherein a first cold rolled sheet is rapidly heated from 500.degree. C. to 900.degree. C. at a heating rate of at least 50.degree. C./sec and the steel sheet heated in the intermediate annealing is rapidly cooled from 900.degree. C. to 500.degree. C. at a cooling rate of at least 5.degree. C./sec.

Abstract: Fe-B molten metal for producing amorphous alloys are produced in a low cost by using a vertical furnace wherein beds packed with a carbonaceous solid reducing agent are formed and two or three stages of tuyeres are provided in the lower portion of said furnace, feeding a preliminarily reduced powdery iron ore into the furnace through the upper stage of tuyeres together with hot air and feeding boron oxide or boric acid into the furnace through the lower stage of tuyeres together with hot air and, if necessary blowing hot air into the furnace through the lowest stage of tuyeres. In stead of the above described vertical furnace, a usual blast furnace provided with one or two stages of tuyeres at the lower portion of said furnace is used. In this case, sintered iron ore, pellet-formed iron ore or lump iron ore is fed from the top of the furnace and powdery boron oxide or boric acid is fed through the tuyeres.

Abstract: Hot-rolled low-carbon steel strip with an excellent press-workability capable of forming a smooth pressed surface consisting essentially of up to 0.12 wt. % carbon, up to 0.01 wt. % nitrogen, up to 0.0094 wt. % boron, and other specific optional ingredients, the B(%)/N(%) ratio being 0.3 to 0.94. The micrograin size number, JIS, of ferrite in the steel strip as hot-rolled is 7 to 9. The steel strip is made by hot-rolling while controlling the temperatures at the entry and delivery ends of a hot-strip finishing mill.

Abstract: Steel sheets having an excellent enamelability are produced by adjusting the carbon, silicon, manganese, aluminum, oxygen and boron contents in a molten steel to be not more than 0.020% of carbon, not more than 0.03% of silicon, not more than 0.50% of manganese, not more than 0.010% of aluminum, nor more than 0.050% of oxygen, boron within a range of 0.003-0.020% being in such an amount B(%).times.0(%) of more than 1.times.10.sup..sup.-5 and the remainder being inevitable impurities and iron, and hot rolling the resulting steel, cold rolling the steel and subjecting to a recrystallization annealing in a conventional manner.