The paper presents a brief history of ring rolling development at the Dresden University of Technology (DUT) from the 70s to the present. The technological scope covers the techniques explored at the DUT: Tangential profile ring rolling, axial profile tube rolling/roll plunging and the TRENPRO® method to produce shaped rings. Starting from the state of the art, technological principle, range of application and machine-oriented implementation of these techniques are described. Furthermore, other common ring rolling variants, such as axial profile ring rolling, skew-rolling and radial-axial ring rolling, are taken into consideration. Finally, the authors provide a summary of problems still to be solved and ways to refine and disseminate the "ring rolling" discipline, assessing the rolling methods' potential as extremely forward-looking.