Many steel products are produced in hot or cold rolling lines with multiple stands. The steel material becomes thinner after being rolled at each stand. Steady-state parameters for controlling the rolling line need to be set so as to satisfy the final product specifications and minimize the total energy consumption. This paper develops a generalized geometric programming model for this setting problem and proposes a global method for solving it. The model can be expressed with a linear objective function and a set of constraints including nonconvex ones. Through constructing lower bounds of some components, the constraints can be converted to convex ones approximately. A sequential approximation method is proposed in a gradually reduced interval to improve accuracy and efficiency. However, the resulting convex programming model in each iteration is still complicated. To reduce the power, it is transformed into a second-order cone programming (SOCP) model and solved using alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). The effectiveness of the global method is tested using real data from a hot-rolling line with seven stands. The results demonstrate that the proposed global method solves the problem effectively and reduces the energy consumption