Customer Benefits of Cold Drawn Steel Bar & Wire vs. Hot Rolled Bar/Rod

Cold Drawn Product Features / Customer Benefits

• Improved Size and Section / Reduces machining losses
  • Tighter size & section tolerances
  • Dimensional consistency within each bar
  • Dimensional consistency from bar to bar
• Improved Surface Finish / Reduces surface machining & improves quality
  • Cold drawn
  • Ground and polished
  • Surface Improvement (Shaving or turning to produce “Defect Free” surface)
• Improved Straightness / Facilitates automatic bar feeding
• Increased Mechanical Properties / Can reduce the need for hardening
  • Yield strength
  • Tensile strength
  • Hardness
• Improve Machinability and Productivity / Enables higher machining feeds & speeds and improved machined finish.
  • Increased machining rates
  • Longer tool life
  • Improved yield
• Improved Formability / Improves response to spheroidization
  • Cold Drawn and Annealed
• Improved Cost Effectiveness / Optimizes machinability and reduces yield losses
  • Production of Precision Shapes to Precision Tolerances

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