EoW January 2014

News Technology

Advertorial on behalf of Decalub Rod scale removal, surface dry preparation and drawing at extreme speed

(3,600ft/min) for spring wire, completely eliminating the need for phosphate and borax pre-coating chemicals and their wet substitutes.

The Dry Cleaning, Coating and Drawing (DCCD) process offers substantial cost savings replacing conventional rod wet preparation, including acid cleaning/ rinsing/wet pre-coating and drying, by the new totally dry and green process that presents a unique combination of simplicity and effectiveness. The DCCD process is used in the most demanding H/C and L/C drawing applications from mechanically descaled bare rod, including 0.88-0.90%C, drawn directly without wet pre-coating chemicals, including spring wire, rope wire, PC strand wire, CO 2 welding wire, cold heading wire, plating wire, etc. The process operates at zero maintenance cost as there is no acid, no hot liquid tanks for rod pre-coating, no hot air blowers to dry wet rod, and it operates at virtually zero energy consumption. The rod moisture, enemy number one for wire drawing, is completely eliminated. An added benefit is the automatic control of lubrication parameters, including lubricant pressure, temperature and viscosity, enabling the use of standard high melting lubricants (+220°C=428°F) which are instantaneously converted from solid into liquefied state and deposited on uncoated (bare) rod, generating exceptional thermal stability at the highest drawing speed, 18m/sec

▲ ▲ Rod cleaning and wire drawing by DCCD process

In operation, all lubrication variables communicate together in a sensitive and automatic multi-way interaction to form a high-density strongly adherent full-film anti-wear lubricant coat, weight-adjustable, enabling frictionless drawing benefiting from physical separation of wire-die contact in all drafts. The DCCD process revolutionises the wire drawing process: Customers can target immediate total saving of 50-64 per cent in the production cost of drawn wire, in all drawing applications with virtually no speed limit, and only dictated to by the rod pay-off and wire take up modes. Decalub – France Email : info@decalub.com Website : www.decalub.com

Submit your editorial for wire 2014 in the March issue of EuroWire

There is still time to get your editorial into the preview section for wire 2014 in Düsseldorf for the March issue of EuroWire. Up to 350 words should be sent to david@intras.co.uk before the deadline on 17 th January 2014. Photographs can also be sent to accompany your editorial. Please also include your stand number. For advertising enquiries, please email eurowire@intras.co.uk or contact the office on +44 1926 334137. Staff from EuroWire, Wire & Cable ASIA and wiredInUSA will also be on hand to meet you at the exhibition. Please feel free to pay us a visit and collect a complimentary copy of our magazines from Booth 11 D28 or our stand EN03 at the North Entrance. Our sister publications, Tube and Pipe Technology and Tube Products International, will also be at the exhibition at Booth 4 B29.

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