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Wire rod preparation lines

  • We will never stress enough our important is to have a proper wire rod preparation line in front of a drawing machine. The wire rod preparation is essential to obtain a first class quality product and also necessary to obtain high production speeds.

The main purpose of the wire rod preparation line is to remove the highly abrasive oxide layer on the surface of the wire. Drawing wire that still has an oxide layer  on its surface means that the scale will be embedded into the wire and cause breakages or premature failure of the final product.

The wire rod preparation lines can be divided in three categories: 

BATCH PICKLING LINES:

These lines are suitable for large productions and maximum flexibility in the coating.

  • The batch pickling lines are designed to use either using HCl or H2SO4 acids , depending on customer preference and the wish to effectively regenerate the acid ( in this case possible only with H2SO4)
  • The movements of the wire rod coils are performed with computer controlled overhead cranes in order to follow the pickling and coating sequences as per pre-established procedures.
  • Our batch pickling lines can be designed with push -pull fume control technology or with tunnel fume control technology. In this case the acid section of the line is fully enclosed into a tunnel that is connected to a vacuum system and a scrubber.
  • The batch pickling lines usually are composed by a series of tanks that perform the following duties:
  • Acid pickling tanks
  • Dip rinse tanks ( hot and cold)
  • Dynamic rinse tank
  • Phosphate activation tank
  • Phosphate coating tank
  • Borax coating tank
  • Lime coating tank
  • Hot air dryer tank

Waste water treatment system and acid recovery:

Our batch pickling plants can be completed with a waste water treatment plant that will neutralize and treat all effluents so that they can be effectively discharged without any harm for the environment.

If the pickling uses H2SO4, it is possible to install a very effective acid recovery system that will regenerate all the acid used by separating the iron sulfate from the acid.

 

IN LINE PICKLING :

Suitable for high carbon wire rod preparation in line with a drawing machine: a simple and cost effective solution for small scale production of high carbon wires.

  • These lines can be equipped with an acid pickling section or can be configured without.

  • The composition of the line is as follows:

  • Wire rod payoff
  • Mechanical reverse bending descaler
  • Wire rod brushing unit
  • Steam pickling tube or pressurized cold water rinse tube
  • H2SO4 electro pickling tube and hot/cold pressurized rinse
  • Borax coating unit
  • Dryer
  • For particular applications, the line can be fitted with a electrolytic  calcium phosphating unit so that the wire rod is coated with a lube carrier before entering the borax tank.

  • These lines can be configured with single storage tanks that are connected to various processing trays that can serve several lines.

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    IN LINE DESCALING:

    Suitable for low carbon wire rod preparation in line with a drawing machine: a simple and cost effective solution for production of low carbon wires.

    The wire rod preparation line for low carbon is fairly simple and foresees only a mechanical descaler and a brushing unit. For particular applications the line can be completed with a steam pickling tube followed by a borax coating unit and induction dryer.

     

    ACCESSORIES:

    Dryers:

    • We propose two types of borax dryers:

    • Induction type unit: very compact and efficient
    • Hot air type unit: very reliable and simple to use, particularly suitable for larger wire rod sizes.

     Accessories:

    • Acid filtering systems
    • PH meters
    • Single or double wire rod orbital brushing units
    • Optical pyrometers

    Payoffs:

    • vertical axis wire rod payoff for low carbon wire rods
    • horizontal axis wire rod payoff flipper type
    • horizontal axis wire rod payoff flyer type with pusher