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    parks -- Kaiser Micromills was formed in 1995 to bring the company's revolutionary can sheet manufacturing technology to market, and the commercial-scale Kaiser Sierra Micromill near Reno, Nevada, became operational in 1997.

    What makes the Kaiser Micromill unique is its compact, continuous, in-line casting and rolling process that produces finish-gauge sheet directly from molten metal in less than a minute, unlike the conventional process in which the metal is first cast into large ingots and then rolled to sheet in a series of highly capital-intensive steps.


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