Method for hot-dip coating of a steel flat product

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PATENT NO 9803270
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14377337

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A method which allows process-stable hot-dip coating of Ni-alloy steel flat products in a cost- and resource-effective manner, including the following steps: a) provision of a steel flat product obtained by cold- or hot-rolling; b) within 1-30 s, heating the steel flat product to a holding temperature between 700 and 1100° C., under a heating atmosphere of N2; c) holding the steel flat product at the holding temperature for a holding duration of 10-120 s under a holding atmosphere of N2; d) cooling the steel flat product from the holding temperature to a strip inlet temperature of 430-800° C.; and e) passing the steel flat product through an inlet zone, in which an inert or reducing inlet atmosphere predominates, and passing the steel flat product through a melt bath, wherein TP1>TP2>TP4.

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OUTOKUMPU NIROSTA GMBHOBERSCHLESIENSTRASSE 16 KREFELD 47807
THYSSENKRUPP STEEL EUROPE AG47166 DUISBURG

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Blumenau, Marc Hagen, DE 16 65
Gusek, Christopher Iserlohn, DE 6 15
Jindra, Fred Lennestadt, DE 9 21
Krautschick, Hans-Joachim Solingen, DE 6 37
Schoenenberg, Rudolf Daphne, US 11 81

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