Stahlwerk: Stauchpresse

Tonaufnahme

On the recording, a sizing press can be heard processing crude steel billets in the hot rolling mill of the Stahlwerk (steelworks) of Thyssen-Krupp in Duisburg. In the hot rolling mill, the process of hot rolling is carried out, a metalworking process in steel production: rolling at high temperatures makes possible a significant reduction in thickness. For example, crude steel billets are reshaped into hot-rolled strip (a hot-rolled product with a rectangular cross section and a width of at least 600 mm). The crude steel billets, which have already been heated in the pusher furnace, are rolled into hot-rolled strip on a continuously running production line. In this process, the billets are shaped into the required size for hot rolling in the so-called sizing press. A sizing press enables the 1250 °C hot billets to be shaped into 12 standard sizes, optimally prepared for rolling.

Object Details

• Location: LWL-Industriemuseum - Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Industriekultur, Dortmund
• Measurements: Technische Daten: 15.9 MB (Dateigröße), 1 min 30 s (Länge), 2 (stereo) (Kanäle), 44.1 kHz (Sample rate), 1411 kb7s (Bit rate), 16 bit (Bittiefe), 94 dB (Level)
• Acknowledgment: Die Aufnahmen entstanden im Rahmen des EU-Projekts "Work with sounds".

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Industrie (Sachgruppe)
• Subject (what): Press ; Iron ; Ruhr area ; steeleworks ; steel ; Duisburg ; Thyssen-Krupp ; hot rolling

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Gebrauch
• (where): ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Duisburg
• (when): 2010s
• (description): Nutzung
• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Konrad Gutkowski/Julian Blaschke
• (where): Duisburg, Germany
• (when): April 30 2015
• (description): Ton-/Videoaufnahme

Further information

• Rights: LWL-Industriemuseum - Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Industriekultur
• Last update: 29.04.2025, 7:34 AM CEST