The steel billets, brought to rolling temperature, are placed into a round die and transformed into a hollow shell using a vertical 2,000-ton piercing press using a cylindrical mandrel up to 400 millimeters in diameter.達到軋製溫度的鋼坯被放入圓模中,然後通過使用直徑達 400 毫米的圓柱心軸的 2,000 噸垂直穿孔壓力機將其轉化為空心殼體。