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  • B - Performing operationstransporting
  • B21B - Rolling of metal
  • B21B 1/26 - Metal rolling methods or mills for making semi-finished products of solid or profiled cross-sectionSequence of operations in milling trainsLayout of rolling-mill plant, e.g. grouping of standsSuccession of passes or of sectional pass alternations for rolling bands or sheets of indefinite length in a continuous process by hot-rolling

Patent holdings for IPC class B21B 1/26

Total number of patents in this class: 284

10-year publication summary

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Principal owners for this class

Owner
All patents
This class
JFE Steel Corporation
6998
66
Nippon Steel Corporation
6414
35
SMS Group GmbH
1135
20
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
1987
13
Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd.
971
11
Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc.
55
7
Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.A.
713
6
Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH
546
6
Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation
987
6
Hyundai Steel Company
449
5
Novelis Inc.
766
5
POSCO
2178
5
SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
504
5
Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
365
5
IHI Corporation
3452
4
POSCO Co., Ltd.
1579
4
Primetals Technologies Japan, Ltd.
167
4
TMEIC Corporation
799
4
IHI Metaltech Co., Ltd.
13
3
Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
2882
3
Other owners 67