Voestalpine is investing EUR188m (US$217m) to build a new integrated pickling line in the cold rolling mill 3 (BETA 3) at its site in Linz, Austria. The fully automated pickling line with tandem cold ...

Hot rolling processes (Figure 1) tend to produce an oxide layer on the surface of the steel strip. It is necessary to remove this layer – also known as ‘scale’ – prior to performing further processing ...

Recent technological developments in the electro-reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid, a valuable chemical with possible application in the steel pickling process, may offer an alternative to ...