Patent ID: 8479550

Claim:
A method for production of a hot-rolled steel strip in bundles or in sheets from a steel melt in a continuous manufacturing process, with an uninterrupted strip runthrough, having the following steps in sequence: continuous casting a steel strand in a continuous casting mold of a continuous casting plant, roll-forming the cast steel strand in a first group of roll stands into a pre-rolled hot strip, roll-forming of the pre-rolled hot strip in a second group of roll stands into a hot-rolled steel strip, descaling the pre-rolled hot strip after the first group of roll strands and immediately before entry of the hot strip into a temperature setting device, setting the pre-rolled hot strip to a rolling temperature in a temperature setting device after the hot strip passes the first group of roll stands and after the descaling and before the second group of roll stands, holding the pre-rolled hot strip in a protective gas atmosphere in the temperature setting device, immediately after the pre-rolled hot strip runs through the temperature setting device, roll-forming the hot strip in the second group of roll stands, and winding the hot-rolled steel strip into bundles or dividing the hot-rolled steel strip into sheets.