What do cutting, slitting, and oscillating mean?
After steel is coated, it is often slit or cut. Cutting, in the steel processing industry, means slicing the steel across its width. Slitting means slicing it into strips along its length. When steel is slit into narrow strips, it can be oscillated for the customer’s convenience in handling. Oscillating a steel strip winds it like fishing line on a reel or thread on a spool. As the steel is oscillated, the end of one strip is welded to the beginning of another, producing a compact coil containing a single strip of steel up to 25 miles long. This is also referred to as oscillator wound slitting.
