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Wire & Cable ASIA – July/August 2016
A single misplaced stroke will destroy the potential rare gem
within a rough diamond – and so it is in wiremaking. If a die
is “off”, the feedstock that is drawn through it is, too. For a
production run of wire on a machine operating at high-flow
velocities, this is death – waste – by a thousand cuts.
With a product no thicker than a human hair, surface
defects are not to be tolerated. For this reason die making
has always held a high place in the wire plant. In this era of
progressive, secondary, and compound dies, it still does.