Having won an open internal competition in the 1990s with the Ravenscraig steelworks to become British Steel's leading hot strip mill, in the efforts to increase group and site efficiency in 2001 steelmaking ceased at the site with the loss of 1300 jobs.
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The hot strip mill can roll to a minimum gauge of . 050 in . through . 525 in . ( 1.27 mm through 13.30 mm ) in widths from 30 in . to 61 in . ( 762 mm to 1, 549 mm ).
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The Linz hot strip mill is a " fully integrated steel works " operated by voestalpine Stahl GmbH, a part of the steel division of voestalpine AG . In addition to Linz the most important plants are in Leoben in Styria and in Krems in Lower Austria.
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The remaining portion of the ThyssenKrupp plant with a production capacity of 5.3 million metric tons that includes a hot strip mill, cold roll mill and four coating lines, was purchased by a 50 / 50 joint partnership of ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel in February 2014 for $ 1.5 billion and renamed AM / NS Calvert.
