Industrial Automatic Control Systems and Controllers Annotation << Back The 40th anniversary of the first and the world’s highest capacity automated blooming 1300 Polyakov B.N. The paper offers an engineering assessment of a breakthrough engineering project in metallurgy – the creation of world’s highest capacity automated blooming mill at the Krivoy Rog Metallurgy Works 40 years ago. The project with the associated automation advances, new scientific, technological, and engineering solutions laid the foundation for future automated rolling mills and continuous casting units as well as equipment unification for blooming mills of the Soviet Union during their reconstruction. E-mail: bpoliakov@hotmail.com