Rolling method for strip and corresponding rolling line

A rolling line for the production of flat products with low productivity comprising:

• a continuous casting machine configured to continuously cast a slab at a speed between 3.5 m/min and 6 m/min,
• a single roughing stand connected to an exit of the continuous casting machine and upstream of a heating unit,
• the heating unit having an induction furnace to recover the temperature lost passage through the roughing stand,
• a winding/unwinding device having at least two mandrels and configured to selectively and alternatively wind the slab arriving from the continuous casting machine and unwind the slab to feed a reversing stand of a rolling unit, wherein the winding/unwinding device is downstream of the heating unit,
• the rolling unit comprising a single reversing stand configured to perform a rolling operation, wherein the rolling operation comprises no more than three rolling passes or two inversions to produce a final slab having a thickness between 4 mm and 10 mm.