“…Although many types of grain growth inhibitors such as AlN, MnS, MnSe, Cu 2– x S, and Nb (C, N), have now come into use for developing sharp Goss texture in grain‐oriented silicon steel, MnS, and AlN are still used as the main inhibitors in production of grain‐oriented electrical steels . It is well known that MnS precipitates mainly during hot rolling and the slab is always reheated above 1350 °C before hot rolling to obtain finely distributed precipitates of MnS, which not only consumes a large amount of energy in slab reheating, but also damages the rollers in the bottom of reheating furnace due to the melting of oxide scale on the slab surface and results in necessitating regular cleaning the bottom. Therefore, it is important to decrease the slab reheating temperature, and meanwhile, make the precipitates finely and uniformly distributed.…”