Finish annealing process for grain-oriented electrical steel strip or sheet

摘要

In finish annealing process for a grain-oriented electrical steel strip or sheet, an improvement is disclosed which comprises coating the grain-oriented electrical steel strip or sheet with an annealing separator having a water content adjusted to not more than 10%, drying the coated strip or sheet, forming it into a strip coil, and finish annealing the strip coil within the inner cover of an annealing furnace while controlling the pressure of the gas atmosphere within the inner cover.