Like every type of steel wire, stainless steel wire is an established and widely used basic metallurgical product. Stainless steel “wire rod” is produced on modern hot rolling mills from billets issued of the “Electric furnace + AOD converter + continuous casting” process. The wire rod comes in sizes 5.5 to 30 mm with 5.5 mm (0.218”) being the prevalent size; the wire rod is annealed + pickled or simply pickled if the rod is controlled-cooled.
For wire sizes > 0.8mm, the drawing process is known as “dry drawing”. For fine stainless steel wire production, typically < 0.80mm, the process is quite different and known as “wet drawing”.
Stainless Steel Wires are used in manufacturing of all general-purpose applications mentioned below:
• HOUSEHOLD USES: like kitchen & cookware utensils, storage, electrical appliances & miscellaneous other domestic uses.
• INDUSTRIAL & PROFESSIONAL FOOD PROCESSING: prevalence of racks for display to customers and cold storage, formed wire in mid-size mixers, cooking racks for ovens, wire baskets for strainers and also specific applications such as formed wire for transfer trolleys, stainless wire baskets, trays, racks are found in meat and cheese processing, as well as hooks made of formed stainless steel wire, conveyor belts etc.
• INTERIOR DECORATION: interior decoration of office buildings, shopping malls, museums, theaters, restaurants and upscale shops, home decoration & furnishing etc.
• WIRE MESH: filters, mufflers, catalytic converters blanket mesh, fencings, screenings, interior/exterior architectural decoration
• AUTOMOBILE APPLICATIONS: like exhaust line spacers, support matts, muffler packing, automobile fasteners, air bag safety systems etc. Stainless steel wire is indeed a widely used material essential to automobile safety, durability and performance.
• AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS: like in aerospace fasteners, aircraft cables, safety lock wire, springs for switches, flexible metal hoses
• MEDICAL APPLICATIONS: Stainless steel wire is an important item in the increasingly diversified and fast-growing medical field, in surgery, implants and sophisticated devices. Some of the many uses are as follows.
Vascular therapy - intra-arteria stents, angioplasty catheters, guide wires and diagnostic catheters, aneurysm clips, etc.
Orthopaedics applications - fracture fixations, spinal devices, nails, bone pins and screws, cerclage cables, suture wire.
Endoscopic medical devices - biopsies, gallstone removal, support of colonoscopy, retrieval of foreign objects in airways, laparoscopic surgery.
Orthodontics - arch wire, self-litigating brackets, springs, Surgical and diverse applications (post-surgery staples, suture wire and needles, sty-lets, spring mechanisms of syringes, medical or self-injection systems for diabetes, allergic reactions.
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