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The invention relates to a method for the manufacturing of strips of stainless steel, comprising cold rolling of a strip which in a foregoing process has been manufactured through casting a melt to form a cast strip and/or has been hot rolled. The cold rolling is performed in a rolling mill line (B), which comprises, in the initial part of the line, at least two initial cold rolling mills (11-13) in series, after said initial cold rolling mills at least one annealing furnace (18) and at least one pickling section (26, 27), and in a terminating part of the line, at least one more cold rolling mill (32). The patent specification discloses various modes of operation, including passing the strip once or twice through the line. The invention also relates to a rolling mill line for cold rolling stainless steel strips.