Rolling mark

Detail of a roll frame for railroad tracks in the LVR museum zinc factory Altenberg in Oberhausen, roll with milled roll mark THYSSEN 95 UIC 60 from the iron and steel works Duisburg-Hamborn

Rail that could have been rolled with the above rolling stand

The marking of a beam or rail rolled from metal is called a rolling mark . The marking is engraved as a negative form in the finished caliber of the roller and results in raised writing or raised characters on the product, the type and size of which is specified in the European standard EN 13674-1 for Vignole rails, for example . The usual circumference of the rollers results in a spacing between the roller marks for beams and rails of approx. 2-3 m to each other. A rolling mark can contain:

• the manufacturer's logo
• the name of the manufacturer
• the place of manufacture
• the production year (also production month, possibly coded)
• a mark of product quality
• an identifier for the manufacturing process (T = Thomas-Stahl , B = Bessemer-Stahl , (S) M = (Siemens-) Martin-Stahl )

Structural steel

Also, reinforcing steel of reinforced concrete is characterized over rolling marks, where a "bit pattern" is housed within the corrugation.

Roll mark for steel grade of railroad tracks

Pair of rails with different rolling marks. In front old order; Manufacturer (Krupp), year and month (03.1988), profile (UIC 60), steel quality (R320Cr) rear new according to EN 13674-1; Manufacturer (voestalpine Schienen Donawitz), steel grade (R350LHT), year (2002), profile (EN 60 E1)

This marking of the steel quality today consists of a standardized rolling mark made up of short and long lines. For the rail types that are heat-treated in the factory, this is supplemented with a second rolling mark (which is attached to the right of the one for the steel grade).

The applicable standard EN 13674-1 has been mandatory since February 2009 for symmetrical wide base rails from 46 kg / m. However, many manufacturers have already used them before. This also regulates the new order of all rolling marks. The now valid identification is from left to right; Manufacturer, steel grade, year of manufacture (without month!), EN profile designation. It replaces the old sequence, which was: manufacturer, manufacturer year and month, UIC profile designation (or other e.g. SBB profiles), steel quality

Description or trade name	Steel quality according to EN 13674-1	Rolling mark	image
Wear-resistant quality 700	R200	(no symbol)
Wear-resistant quality 900A	R260	a short line over a long line
Wear-resistant special quality	R320Cr	three long lines below each other
Fine pearlitic quality	R350HT	a short over a long dash + long dash for heat treatment
Fine pearlitic quality	R350LHT	a short over and under a long line + long line for heat treatment
Fine pearlitic quality	R370CrHT	one short over two long lines + long line for heat treatment

Overview of manufacturer marks for rails

Rolling mark	Manufacturer	country	Start of rail production (new rolling mark)	Suspension of rail production / conversion to a new rolling mark	image
A.	Azov Valley, Mariupol, Ukraine	UA	1948
FROM	?	?
AHV, AHAV	Aachener Hütten-Aktien-Verein Rothe Erde , Aachen	D.	1846		,
ATH, A. Th. H., THYSSEN, A. THYSSEN HUT	August Thyssen Hut in Bruckhausen	D.	April 1894	produced today as TSTG (as of 2010)
BANKOWA	Huta Bankowa, Dąbrowa Górnicza , Poland	PL			BANKOWA 1950
BARROW STEEL	?, Barrow-in-Furness , England	GB
BELVAL	United Hüttenwerke Burbach-Eich-Dudelange, Arbed works in Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette	L.
BETH STEELTON	Bethlehem Steel , USA, Steelton plant	United States		since 2003 ArcelorMittal , one of two rail production facilities in the USA
BLAENAVON STEEL	?, Blaenavon , Wales	GB
BRITISH STEEL	British Steel , England	GB
BREDA	Breda , Sesto San Giovanni , Italy	I.
BURBACH	United Hüttenwerke Burbach-Eich-Dudelange, Saarbrücken (French ARBED - Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange) ARBED	D.	1858
BV & Co	Bolckow Vaughan & Co, Middlesbrough	GB		1929
BVG BVG	Bochum association for cast steel production	D.	1865	1970
BW St Bochum	Bismarck-Hütte, Bochum department, Bochum (the former Westphalian steel works )	D.
CA u. Co.	Carl Asbeck, Hagen	D.
COCKERILL	Cockerill-Sambre , Liege	B.	1835
CORUS HY	Corus , Hayingen plant	F.	1877
DH DILLINGEN	AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke , Dillingen / Saar	D.	1858
Differdange	German-Luxemburgish Mining and Hütten-AG , Differdange department, Differdange	L.
DGY DIÓSGYŐR	Rolling mill in Diósgyőr (Miskolc)	H	1870/1871	1999
DK	Union of German Emperors (August Thyssen-Hütte), Duisburg-Hamborn	D.
DOMNARVET	Domnarvets Jernverk	S.		1989
DO DWZ DONAWITZ	Donawitz Voestalpine Austria	A.	1899	Only rail rolling mill in Austria (as of 2010)
D L. & Co. Ld. Mbro.	Dorman Long and Company Limited, Middlesbrough UK	GB
DOWLAIS STEEL	GKN	GB
DÜDELINGEN	Eisenhütten-AG Dudelange, Dudelange	L.
EH&S.	Eberhard Hoesch & Sons, Lendersdorf / Eschweiler	D.	1838
EISENWERK KRAEMER	Eisenwerk Kraemer , St. Ingbert	D.
ENSIDESA	Aceralia	E.
EV STEEL	?	?
FH	Friedenshütte, Silesian Mining and Steel Works, Katowice	PL
GBA-AEH	Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , Adolf-Emil Hütte Department, Esch-sur-Alzette	L.
GHH GH hut	Gutehoffnungshütte , Oberhausen	D.	1843
GMH	Georgsmarienhütte	D.	Late 1920s	1984
GMW	Georgs-Marien-Werke, Georgsmarienhütte (name in the Klöckner Group - see GMH)	D.
GRAZ	Rail rolling mill of the Südbahngesellschaft , Graz	A.
HK	?
H.WENDEL de Wendel	Le petite fils de Fois de Wendel & Co, Hayingen	F.		today Hayingen von Corus plant , see u.
HAYINGEN	Corus, Hayingen	F.
HB & HV	Hörder mining and smelting association	D.	1843	1906 but in 1913 still HB & HV - →
HERNAD	?, Krompachy , Slovakia	SK
HV	Phoenix AG for mining and smelting operations , Hörder Verein department, Hörde (formerly Hörder mining and smelting association )	D.	1906
HO	Hüttenwerke Oberhausen AG (HOAG) (1953–1968 successor company of GHH )	D.
HOESCH	Hoesch AG	D.
HP	Huta Pokoj	PL
HUT PEACE	Loth. Hüttenverein Aumetz-Friede, Kneuthingen-Hütte, Kneuthingen , Lorraine	F.			,
HWR	Steelworks and mines in Rheinhausen	D.		1982
HY	Rolling mill Hayingen	F.		today as CORUS HY (As of 2010)
IH & H.	Steelworks Union Jacobi, Haniel & Huyssen (JHH)	D.
K	Kuznetsk Metallurgical Combine, Novokuznetsk , Russia	RUS	1932
K	Kardemir Iron Steel Industry and Trade Co. Inc., Karabük	TR
[K]	Huta Katowice , Dąbrowa Górnicza , Poland	PL
KLÖCKNER	Klöckner works	D.
KMH	Queen Marien Hut , Cainsdorf near Zwickau	D.
К.З. КН. БѢЛОСЄЛЬСКАГО	State plant Prince Beloselsky, Ust-Kataw , Russia	RUS	1879	1908
KR	?
KRUPP	Croup	D.	1864
Koenigshütte Huta Krol KH	United Königs- and Laurawerke, iron and steel works , Königshütte (Upper Silesia) Katowice	PL
LORAIN STEEL CO	Lorain Steel Co, Lorain , Ohio	United States	1895
LUCCHINI PI	LUCCHINI SpA, Piombino , Italy (see PIOMBINO)	I.
L * (in a circle)	Inexa Profiles, Luleå, Sweden; (L with a star in a circle)	S.		As seen in Lübeck-Herrenwyk, the rolling mill in Luleå went bankrupt in 2001.
MH	Maxhütte , Sulzbach-Rosenberg	D.	1893	2002
MHU MHUT	Maxhütte Unterwellenborn	D.
MHZ KAW King Albert W. KMW	Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilanshütte, Dept. König-Albert-Werk, Zwickau / Lichtentanne	D.		1944
Micheville	Rolling mill in Micheville (now Villerupt , F), in Usinor merged	F.
MOSS BAY	Moss Bay Haematite Iron Co.	GB	1877
NEUBERG	Steelworks Neuberg an der Mürz	A.
NEW SCOTLAND	Mountain and hut share association New Scotland, Essen-Horst	D.	1856/57
НОВ РОС ОБЩ	Novorussian company for coal, iron and rail production		1872
OSNABRUECK	Osnabrück steelworks of Georgsmarienhütte , Osnabrück	D.	circa 1871	Late 1920s
OZD ОЗД	ÓAM Kft., Ózd , Hungary	H
PEIG KLADNO	Prague Iron Industry Company - Poldi Hut , Kladno , Czech Republic	CZ
PHOENIX	Phoenix AG for mining and steel works / United Steelworks , Ruhrort-Meiderich smelter	D.
PIOMBINO PI	LUCCHINI SpA, Piombino , Italy	I.	1908/09	Only rail rolling mill in Italy (as of 2010)
RH Abr WSt W St	United Steel Works , Bochum Association, Westphalian Steel Works Department , Bochum	D.
RMSM	Rocky Mountain Steel Mills, Pueblo, Colorado	United States
RODINGEN	Rolling mill in Rodange (German: Rodingen ) in Luxembourg	L.		today: ArcelorMittal Rodange et Schifflange
ROECHLING	Röchling'sche iron and steel works in Völklingen	D.
Rombach RH	Rombacher Hüttenwerke, Rombach , Lorraine , after 1921 Rombacher Hütte in Bochum	F.		1926
RSW	Rheinische Stahlwerke , Duisburg-Meiderich	D.
RESCHITZA RESICZA	Combinatul Siderurgic Reșița - CSR, Reșița , Romania	RO	1851
SENELLE	Société Métallurgique de Senelle-Maubeuge	F.
SGF	Sächsische Gußstahlwerke Döhlen AG, Freital	D.
SJC	?
SPIGERV	Christiania Spigerverk, Oslo	NO
ST I	Society for the steel industry , Bochum	D.
STARJÁN	Salgótarjáni Acélárugyár Rt., Salgótarján , Hungary	H
MUTE GEBR. MUTE	Neunkircher Eisenwerk AG / Stumm Brothers , Neunkirchen (Saar)	D.	1845
TENNESSEE		United States
T	Nizhniy Tagil metallurgical combine , Nizhny Tagil , Russia	RUS
TSTG TSTD	TSTG Rail Technology GmbH & Co. KG, Bruckhausen (formerly Thyssen Schienen Technik GmbH, formerly August Thyssen-Hütte)	D.	1894	The only rail rolling mill in Germany, planned to be closed at the end of 2012; actually completed at the end of 2013. Rolling of the last German rail on November 13, 2013. The “last rail in Germany” has been laid in the Sinsheim-Steinsfurt station (left lane, track 2).
TESCHEN	Prague Iron Industry Company Cieszyn , Czech Republic	CZ
TZ Tryzynietz Trzyniec	TŘINECKÉ ŽELEZÁRNY, Třinec , Czech Republic	CZ	1878
UNION D	Dortmund Union	D.
VILRU	Société Anonyme Métallurgique d´Aubrives et Villerupt	F.		1968
VOELKLINGEN	Röchling'sche iron and steel works ( Völklinger Hütte ) in Völklingen	D.
WIT	Vitkovice Mining and Ironworks Union , Vítkovice (Ostrava)	CZ
ZELTWEG	Donnersmarck'sches Eisenwerk "Hugohütte" , Zeltweg	A.	1856/7	1900
ZENICA	Rolling mill in Zenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina , Mittal Steel Company since 2004	BiH

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• Oberbauhandbuch.de ( Memento from January 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Directory of factory and rolling marks for permanent way materials made of iron and steel . Edition 1941 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn
• Roll mark on structural steel . In: Swiss engineer and architect. 3/92, 110th year, January 16, 1992, Verlag AG der Academic Technical Associations, Zurich p. 44ff. online (accessed July 22, 2010)

Web links

Commons : Walzzeichen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Other rolling marks: Rail manufacturers from Luxembourg and the surrounding area

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Explanation of the rolling mark "A" on Rails.RF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ History of Азовсталь (Azovstal) on the Russian Wikipedia online and its own website online
3. ^ Wilhelm Rabius: The Aachener Hütten-Aktien-Verein in Rote Erde 1846-1906 . Gustav Fischer, Jena 1906, p. 10 archive.org
4. ↑ gleisbau-welt.de ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Wilhelm Treue : The fires never go out - August Thyssen-Hütte 1890–1926 . Econ, Düsseldorf and Vienna 1966, p. 38.
6. ^ Steelton, Pennsylvania in the English language Wikipedia
7. ↑ arcelormittal.com ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed: July 31, 2010) 
8. ↑ Start of rail production on August 1, 1858 according to the Saarstahl company website on the history of the Burbach site saarstahl.com ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved July 23, 2010) 
9. ↑ Walzzeichen-Bild in this forum blog.goo.ne.jp , story in the student paper of Marianne Pitts cardiff.ac.uk (PDF) bankruptcy 1929.
10. ↑ gleisbau-welt.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Bulletin of The Business Historical Society Inc. Baker Library, Soldiers Field, Boston, Mass., Volume VI, Nro.3, May 1937, Whole Number 37: "La Societe Cockerill 1817-1927"
12. ↑ The current rolling mill of the Corus Group is Hayange (see below). The Workington plant closed in 2008. Corus Technical Guide corusrail.com ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) 
13. ^ Corus has been rolling rails in Workington since 1877. Source: parliament.uk report
14. ↑ digitalis.uni-koeln.de (PDF; 2.4 MB)
15. ↑ gleisbau-welt.de ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
16. ↑ Országos Műszaki Múzeum Kohászati ​​Múzeuma (Hungarian Museum for Science and Technology) ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , A diósgyőri Magyar Királyi Vas- és Aczélgyár története (pdf; 1.2 MB) 
17. ↑ A vaskohászat átalakulása, és ennek következményei (pdf; 110 kB)
18. ↑ Domnarvets Jernverk in the Swedish language Wikipedia
19. ↑ 110 years of rail partnership between ÖBB and voestalpine , December 15, 2009, Styrian Federation of Industry (Retrieved August 25, 2010)
20. ↑ Photo online on Flickr
21. ^ Wilhelm Rabius: The Aachener Hütten-Aktien-Verein in Rote Erde 1846-1906 . Gustav Fischer, Jena 1906, p. 8 archive.org
22. ↑ flickr.com
23. ↑ Since 1843 rails have been rolled by the "Actienverein für Bergbau- und Hüttenbetrieb Gutehoffnungshütte" in Sterkrade . Source: Official catalog of the exhibition of the German Empire for the Vienna World Exhibition 1873, p. 37/38 online (PDF; 1.7 MB)
24. ↑ The rail program was relocated from the Osnabrück steelworks to the Georgsmarienhütte works at the end of the 1920s.
25. ^ Shutdown of the Grob / Rail rolling mill II in June 1984.
26. ↑ Reference to the rail rolling mill of the Südbahn-Gesellschaft in Graz kultur.graz.at (PDF; 175 kB)
27. ^ Corus took over the Hayingen plant in 1999, see report House of Commons - Trade and Industry - Fourth Report
28. ↑ Since 1843 rails have been rolled on the Hermannshütte of the Piepenstock company, which later became the Hörder Verein and, in 1966, part of Hoesch AG . Source: Official catalog of the exhibition of the German Empire for the Vienna World Exhibition 1873, p. 37 online (PDF; 1 , 7 MB)
29. ↑ ^{a b} HB&HV merged with Phoenix AG in 1906 - the rolling mark changed to HV
30. ↑ HERNAD 905 and HERNAD 912
31. ↑ gleisbau-welt.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
32. ↑ Krupp closes the rolling mill at the Rheinhausen site at the end of 1982 geschichte.de/nrw
33. ↑ In 1808 Gottlob Jacobi , the brothers Franz and Gerhard Haniel and Heinrich Arnold Huyssen brought their shares in the three smelters “ St.Antony ”, “ Gute Hoffnung ” and “ Neu Essen ” to the “ Hüttengewerkschaft und Handlung Jacobi, Haniel & Huyssen” “(JHH) (articles of association notarized in 1810). This resulted in the “ Actienverein für Bergbau und Hüttenbetrieb, Gutehoffnungshütte ” (GHH) in 1873 . See Friedrich Frölich, Arnold Woltmann: The Gutehoffnungshütte Oberhausen, Rhineland. In memory of the 100th anniversary from 1810-1910. Düsseldorf 1910. pp. 1-10. (Digitized version)
34. ↑ Explanation of the rolling mark "K" on Rails.RF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
35. ↑ Completion 1932 see Freedictionary
36. ↑ Stigma on the rails [1]
37. ↑ Establishment of a rail rolling mill in the cast steel factory in Essen 1864; Franz Maria Feldhaus:  Krupp, Alfred . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 528-537.
38. ↑ Picture in this forum online
39. ^ Relocation of the rail rolling mill from Haidhof to Rosenberg 1892/93, Rosenpfand brochure 2010, p. 9 online
40. ↑ End of production for rails in the Maxhütte 2002: Article "Why the railway is called railway - exhibition about" ignored "railway tracks in the city museum", Oberpfälzer Wochenzeitung, 23 December 2009 online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
41. ↑ Short story of the work in the report: Ronald Peuschel, Lothar Zenner: The species protection project “Maxhütte” in Zwickau ; Factory abandoned online after bombing in 1944  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
42. ↑ The history of the Corus company goes back to Moss Bay Haematite Co - Phil Baggley's website online
43. ↑ Chronicle of the place Steele ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
44. ↑ The "Actiengesellschaft Eisen- und Stahlwerk zu Osnabrück" "was established in 1869–1872 for rolling Bessemer steel rails, among other things. Source: Official catalog of the exhibition of the German Empire at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873, p. 42 digitalis.uni-koeln.de ( PDF; 1.7 MB) Later merger with Georgsmarienhütte , from which the pig iron was already obtained.
45. ↑ The rail program was relocated from the Osnabrück steelworks to the Georgsmarienhütte works at the end of the 1920s.
46. ↑ Brochure Rails and rolled products for railway applications from Lucchini SPA, p. 2 lucchini.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.6 MB)  
47. ↑ ares.lu (accessed October 10, 2010)
48. ↑ The Rombacher Hütte is incorporated into the United Steel Works in 1926.
49. ↑ A hegyi bánság ipartörténete (html)
50. ↑ STARJÁN 96 and STARJÁN 95
51. ↑ Hut history online at saarlandbilder.net
52. ↑ Explanation of the rolling mark "T" on Rails.RF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
53. ↑ The rolling mark of the TSTG looks like "TSTD" because the G was mirrored in the TSTG logo.
54. ↑ Website TSTG tstg.de . The TSTG rail division at the Duisburg-Bruckhausen location was sold by ThyssenKrupp to Voest alpine in August 2001 - "120 meters of precision work" in: Berliner Zeitung , March 13, 2004.
55. ↑ Voestalpine AG press release of March 13, 2012: Voestalpine AG plans to close the TSTG Schienentechnik ( memento of the original from January 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved June 6, 2012) 
56. ↑ Article in the WAZ from November 13, 2013: [2] (accessed on February 13, 2014)
57. ↑ Třinecké železárny in the Czech language Wikipedia
58. ↑ mentioned in: [3] accessed on July 31, 2015
59. ↑ gleisbau-welt.de ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
60. ↑ VAEE environmental statement, historical development of the Zeltweg location, p. 16 voestalpine.com (PDF)
61. ↑ Short story voestalpine -bahnen voestalpine.com ( Memento from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Remarks

1. ↑ The manufacturer Tatasteel used until 2009 for its MHH rails with steel grade R370CrHT; three long dashes + one long for heat treatment