Method of manufacturing can body sheet using two sequences of continuous, in-line operations

A method for manufacturing can body sheet in which the process is carried out in two sequences of continuous, in-line operation comprising, in the first sequence, continuously hot rolling a hot aluminum feedstock to reduce its thickness, coiling the hot rolled feedstock while it is hot, holding the hot reduced feedstock at or near the hot rolling exit temperature for at least two minutes to effect recrystallization and solutionization without intermediate heating, and, in the second continuous in-line sequence, the steps of uncoiling the hot coiled feedstock and quenching the annealed feedstock immediately and rapidly to a temperature sufficient for cold rolling and cold rolling the feedstock to produce can body sheet stock.