Method for manufacturing of stainless steel strips

A method for manufacturing strips of stainless steel, comprising hot rolling in an initial process (A) and subsequently cold rolling in a cold rolling line (B), wherein the hot rolling is stopped when the strip thickness has been reduced to a thickness between 2.0 and 6.5 mm, that the thus hot rolled strip is cooled from the final hot rolling temperature through quenching to below 700 degrees ° C., that at the subsequent cold rolling is passed at least one time through said cold rolling line, which comprises at least one cold rolling mill in the initial part of the line and after said initial cold rolling mill(s), in the following order:

• at least one annealing section, a scale breaking step, a shot blasting step and at least one pickling section utilizing a mixture of nitric acid HNO3, hydrofluoric acid HF and optionally sulphuric acid H2SO4;
• said strip, as it for the first time is passing the at least one cold rolling mills in the initial part of the line, being rolled with the dark coloured oxides remaining, which oxides the strip has obtained in the hot condition of the strip during the initial process.