EoW November 2012

Feature

Steel wire, rod & rope production

T he superbly engineered and complex apparatus reviewed here provides a starting place for a seemingly limitless array of carbon steel and stainless steel wares, in applications from a dentist’s drill to a crane tall as a skyscraper. Such versatility is possible only with designed-in acceptance of a broad range of criteria imposed by customers with- out end-product inhibitions: galvanized, bright, lubricated, dry; round and com- pacted; tensile strength, hardness, weldability; sizes from 1mm up to 83mm and beyond. Thewebsite of amanufacturer of steel wire

rope asks an interesting question about the company’s highly evolved product. With its mass of wires moving together, in unison and harmony, and bending in response to defined and lengthening factors – all the while resisting the effects of heat, fatigue, rotation, crushing, and metal loss and deformation – is the wire rope itself perhaps entitled to be called a machine? Probably the providers of the products and services featured in this section of EuroWire would not go so far. But they will understand the thinking behind the question.

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