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April 1972

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This new six-strand Mesta cold rolling mill is the world’s fastest. Recently installed at Alcoa’s Warrick, Indiana, sheet mill the computer-controlled mill is capable of spewing out aluminum sheet at more than a mile-and-a-half per minute. The mill rolls sheet 52 inches wide to an unprecedented precision, made possible by special quality control devices. Sheet from the new mill will go primarily to can manufacturers.

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