The sheet manufacturing process,which involves various solid-state transformations such as phase transformations,plastic deformation and thermally activated recovery processes,determines the texture of the finished product.The conventional process of flat rolling and annealing only offers limited degrees of freedom to modify the texture.After annealing a {111} recrystallization fibre in BCC alloys is commonly obtained.For flux carrying purposes,however,other texture components are required than the ones achievable by conventional processing.In the present paper it is shown that by severe plastic deformation of ultra-low carbon steel a texture can be obtained with increased intensity on the {001} fibre,which is of interest for magnetic applications.A similar texture is observed at the surface of Mn added low carbon steels by a mechanism of orientation selection,which involves the crystal anisotropy of the metal/vapour surface energy.It is also demonstrated that the conventional {111} deep drawing texture of IF steel can be obtained by a process of ultra-fast annealing(with a heating rate of more than 1000°C/s).Ultra-fast annealing also allows to significantly reduce the grain size of the finished product as compared to the conventionally processed IF steel.