Patent ID: 7854884

Claim:
Installation ( 1 ) for producing hot-rolled strip from austenitic stainless steels, which is to be used to carry out a method in which, in a first step, a cast slab ( 6 ) is subjected to a rolling operation in a rolling mill with a finishing train and, in a second step, a heat treatment is carried out to prevent susceptibility to corrosion, and which comprises a continuous casting machine ( 2 ) for producing a cast slab ( 6 ) and a rolling mill ( 13 ) with a temperature adjustment system ( 11 ), which is installed upstream of the rolling mill, and a cooling system ( 16 ) for cooling the rolling stock ( 15 ), which is installed downstream of the rolling mill, wherein the temperature adjustment system ( 11 ) comprises an installation ( 7 ) including a furnace for preheating the cast slab to a first temperature of ≦1,150° C. and an installation ( 10 ) for intensive heating including an inductive heating zone for adjustment of the run-in temperature (Tein) of the cast slab into the finishing train of the rolling mill to a second temperature above 1,150° C., for the purpose of establishing a final rolling temperature (Twe) to carry out the heat treatment by direct exploitation of the rolling heat, wherein the cooling system ( 16 ) for cooling the rolling stock comprises means for quenching ( 16 ) the rolling stock to temperatures below 600° C., to prevent the precipitation of chromium carbides during cooling, the temperature adjustment system further comprising a first descaling system between the preheating installation ( 7 ) and the intensive heating installation ( 10 ), wherein only the first descaling system is located between the preheating installation ( 7 ) and the intensive heating installation ( 10 ).