FIELD: processes and equipment for cooling hot rolled steel products such as rods, strips and so on. SUBSTANCE: system for cooling hot rolled steel products at reduced cooling rate includes coiling apparatus for deforming product to continuous series of turns. In receiving station conveyor receives turns from coiling apparatus and moves turns placed one onto another and having shifted centers through cooling zone until other deforming station where turns are discharged from conveyor and accumulated in vertically arranged coils. Upon motion through cooling zone turns are covered with pelletized insulation material. EFFECT: possibility for providing more uniform cooling and strictly controlled cooling rate, low intensity of scaling. 23 cl, 3 dwg
