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Steel wire is one of the four major varieties of steel plate, tube, shape and wire. It is a reprocessed product made of hot-rolled wire rod by cold drawing. There are extra fine <0.1mm, finer 0.1-0.5mm, fine 0.5-1.5mm, medium 1.5-3.0mm, thick 3.0-6.0mm, thicker 6.0-8.0mm, and extra thick>8.0mm.

And what is the wire used for?

Different steel wire classifications will also have different effects.

Common quality steel wire includes welding rod, nail making, mesh making, packaging and printing steel wire;

Cold upsetting steel wire for cold upsetting rivets, screws, etc.;

Electrical steel includes special steel wires for the production of overhead communication lines and steel-cored aluminum stranded wires;

Steel wire for textile industry includes carding, harness 013, card clothing and needle wire;

Rope wire is specially used for the production of wire rope and spokes;

Spring steel wire includes steel wire for spring and spring washer, piano and tire, cord and transport tape;

Structural steel wire refers to steel wire for watch industry, ball, automatic machine free cutting;

Stainless steel wires include stainless steel wires and surgical implant wires for the above purposes;

Resistance alloy wire is used for heater element and resistance element;

Tool wire includes steel wire and shoe wire.

According to the different uses of the steel wire, a plated metal or alloy is also added to the surface of the steel wire.

Coating treatment is to coat a layer of metal or alloy on the surface of the steel wire that requires coating on the non-glossy surface. One of the purposes is to make the steel wire anti-corrosion to improve its service life, such as galvanized, aluminum, galvanized aluminum alloy, etc.; the second purpose is to To make the steel wire have some special properties, such as the production of tire steel wire and steel cord steel wire, in order to ensure the good bonding ability between the steel wire and the rubber, the former needs to be copper-plated, brass-plated or bronze-plated, and the latter needs to be brass-plated.

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