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Tecnofil is an international player
in low and medium carbon steel wire
production and in the design and
realisation of machines for wire and
wireband production.
Recently, thanks to the new SF25 line, the
company has extended its production to
include steel fibres for the building sector.
Tecnofil fibres improve the resistance
of concrete to impacts and mechanical
strains when the flexural and shear
stress is very high. For example, they
are commonly used in industrial floors,
airport runways, parking lots, roads,
highways, coating tunnels, hydraulic
works, earthquake-proof constructions
and precast elements.
The SF25 line is a turnkey solution
developed by Tecnofil to manufacture
reinforcing glued steel fibres that grant
higher production speeds and better
design consistency.
Moreover, Tecnofil states that end users
prefer them as they are very easy to
handle and have faster mixing times
in concrete: with the use of soluble
adhesives, steel fibres get immediately
loose and homogeneously scattered in
the concrete.
Tecnofil’s SF25 line starts from round
steel wires and transforms them into
steel fibres in strips, ready to be used.
In detail, round steel wires are glued
together in a band with a special
water-soluble adhesive that fades in
concrete.
The band is then dried and fed into the
press which cuts and stamps the finished
fibre strips. The whole process is fully
integrated and automatic to ensure the
highest productivity. The line has been
designed exploiting Tecnofil’s 20 years’
experience in this sector.
Tecnofil SpA – Italy
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Using steel fibres for building
▲ ▲ Tecnofil uses all its experience in the production of fibres