Cold-Rolling Laboratory Four high single stand cold reduction mill which processes 12-inch-wide strip at a max speed of 500 fpm. Mill is fully instrumented to obtain all engineering information relative to the cold rolling process. The unit is used to refine the rolling operations in U. S. Steel and to develop practices for processing new sheet and tin products. A small two high cold mill is also available for temper rolling studies on smaller steel specimens.

Formability and Heat Treating Laboratory - Various formability testing machines consisting of a state of the art limiting dome height machine, an Olsen cup machine, strip draw bead tester, bending under tension tester and MODUL-R tester. These testers are used to evaluate formability of sheet products presently produced by U. S. Steel and under development. A new heat treating simulator is available that reproduces the batch annealing process for sheet and tin mill products. The simulator has the capability of using various atmospheric gases and annealing temperature cycles.

Electroplating Pilot Line - Continuous electroplating facility which processes 7-inch-wide strip at a max line speed of 300 fpm. The pilot line is capable of representing all of the electroplating and electrocleaning processes used in U. S. Steel. The line is used in new product development and process refinement for both sheet and tin mill applications.

Electroplating Laboratory - Extensive bench scale and circulation flow-cell facilities to simulate electroplating processes. Flow cells can produce plated panels 2.5-inch by 8-inch and 8-inch by 12-inch large enough for formability studies. Equipment is used to develop new coatings for sheet and tin mill applications.

Electrical Steels Laboratory - Various processing and testing facilities for evaluating cold-rolled magnetic lamination steels used in the manufacture of motors, transformers, ballasts, and other electrical devices. The Laboratory facilities include QDA furnaces, AC and DC magnetic testers and torque magnetometer.

Pilot Canmaking Line - Two-piece canmaking facility representing a multimillion dollar investment. The pilot line uses developmental and commercial canmaking machinery and performs the various steps of manufacture from uncoiling, blanking, drawing, ironing, trimming, and washing, to die and spin necking, flanging, and inside coating. New can beading equipment is used to optimize bead designs for food can applications. The line is used to determine optimum designs for lighter; stronger, lower cost steel beverage and food cans.

Paint Laboratory - Laboratory used to duplicate the preparation and painting operations used in the appliance and automotive industries. Equipment is capable of cleaning, phosphating, electrocathodic primer coating, and spray top coating steel panels for subsequent paint and corrosion evaluation.

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