3 High Rolling Mill

Rolling mill consisting of three rolls or known as 3 High rolling mill is typically used for performing multiple reduction passes by wrapping material around the center mill roll and performing another reduction on the opposite mill roll pair. 3 High mill can also be used with varying mill roll sizes to induce a specific percentage of reduction of material on a single side of the work piece. This can be beneficial for cladded materials or for conditioning a single side of strip.

3 High Rolling Mill Equipment Options

With any Element Rolling mills, we offer several options that are available to increase the productivity of your equipment. Some of the options that we offer to maximize the capacity of our mills include:

  • Quick roll change out options
  • Repetitive reduction schedules
  • Automatic gauge control features

Element mills offer a wide range of feed back options for roll positioning that provide tight output tolerances. Our most accurate design incorporates non contact positive roll detection that can provide output to tolerances of better than +/-0.0001″ (+/- 4um).

Rolling mill can have multiple different configurations that are used depending on material type, thickness and yield strengths. Element has built a wide variety of rolling mills to fit multiple applications.

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3 High Rolling Mill Experience

Element has supplied 3 high rolling mills for specialty applications like clad material reductions or conditioning expanded metal sheet. The unique characteristics offered by a non even roll configuration have been used to induce specialized roll crowning for certain considerations, allowing a machine to function as a standard 2 high in most situations.

Minimum Maximum
Material Thickness 0.00025″ (0.0063 mm) 12″ (305 mm)
Material Width 1″ (25.4 mm) 144″ (3,658 mm)
Coil Weight 500 lbs (228 kg) 100,000 lbs (45,359 kg)
Separating Force 50 UST (45 MT) 3,000 UST (2,722 MT)
Line Speed 50 FPM (15 MPM) 3,000 FPM (914 MPM)
Thickness Tolerance +/- 0.0001″ (0.0025 mm) +/- 0.002″ (0.051 mm)

Our Rolling mills meet a wide variety of multiple applications used in different industries and are built with the following options:

Control Options Work Piece Types Industries Served
  • All PLC Platforms
  • Allen Bradley
  • Siemens
  • ABB
  • Ingot/Plate
  • Sheet
  • Coil
  • Powderized
  • Integrated Mills
  • Mini Mills
  • Aerospace/Military
  • Manufacturing
  • Service Centers
  • Construction
Tolerances Materials
Rolling mills typically have very accurate positioning to ensure outgoing material gauge meets a required dimensional tolerance. Typical industry standards that can be used to establish these tolerance include:

Rolling mills can be used to reduce a variety of materials. Element Machinery has built mills to reduce a wide variety of incoming material including cladded materials. Some typical materials include:

  • Steel
  • Stainless Steel
  • Aluminum
  • Copper
  • Brass Tantalum
  • Niobium
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Lead
  • Carbon Strip
  • Powdered Metals
  • Plastics
  • Exotic Alloys

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