轧辊的品种和制造工艺随冶金技术的进步和轧钢设备的演变而不断发展。中世纪轧制软的有色金属时使用强度低的灰铸铁轧辊。18世纪中叶英国掌握了轧制钢板用的冷硬铸铁轧辊的生产技术。
The variety and manufacturing process of roll h***e been developed with the progress of metallurgical technology and the evolution of steel rolling equipment. The use of low strength gray iron rolls in the Middle Ages when rolling soft nonferrous metals. In the middle of the eighteenth Century, Britain mastered the production technology of cold cast iron rolls used for rolling steel plates.
19世纪下半叶欧洲炼钢技术的进步要求轧制更大吨位的钢锭，无论是灰铸铁或冷硬铸铁轧辊的强度均已不能满足要求。含碳量为0.4%～0.6%普通铸钢轧辊相应诞生。重型锻压设备的出现更使这种成分的锻造轧辊的强韧性得到进一步提高。
In the second half of the nineteenth Century, the progress of steelmaking technology in Europe requires larger tonnage steel ingots to be rolled. Neither the strength of gray iron or chilled cast iron rolls can meet the requirements. The ordinary cast steel roll with a carbon content of 0.4% to 0.6% is born accordingly. The emergence of he***y forging equipment makes the strength and toughness of the forging roll of this component further improved.
初轧机、钢坯连轧机、大型型钢和轨梁轧机、热轧板带钢轧机破鳞和轧边机、型钢轧机的轧边机，还有小型型钢、线棒材轧机的粗轧机架等轧机使用的轧辊，大多采用整体铸造方法生产，这类轧辊使用层较厚，孔型较深。
The rolling mill of rolling mill, billet rolling mill, large type steel and rail beam mill, hot rolled strip mill break scale, rolling edge mill, type steel universal mill, and rolling mill used in ***all steel and wire rod mill are mostly produced by the whole casting method, which is thicker and deeper.