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Inside Rheola Works aluminium factory. Workers on factory floor with finished aluminium sheet.

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Martyn Leonard Alderman's profile picture
This picture shows the Brightside Reversing Hot Breakdown Mill at 80" width that could roll DC cast slabs of 14" thickness down to 1/2" to 1" thick. The hot mill blank would then pass down the hot mill table ( behind the mill stand in this picture) to a 3 stand warm tandem mill which was capable of taking the blank down to 3-8mm thick coil for subsequent cold rolling or cutting up as plate/shate.

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