Finish-rolling wire or rod

A method for finishing/sizing-rolling of wire and/or round steel utilises a continuously operating finishing block having a plurality of stacks of working rolls and substantially circular sizing rolls arranged closely one behind the other the rolling planes of which are offset alternately by 90 DEG relative to one another. The stock is asymmetrically widened in the two stacks of rolls preceding the final stack of sizing rolls to impose an approximately identically sized twist on the stock at each stack, the twists being in opposite directions. As a result, the stock is stabilised in position in the final sizing roll pass.