WCA September 2016

49 / 116

47
Wire & Cable ASIA – September/October 2016
Technologynews
WIRE rod rust is no longer an alarming phenomenon since the
introduction of the Smooth-Brush (SB) wire rod green and dry
cleaning system.
SB rod cleaning is used in the most demanding wire drawing
applications, including spring wire, plating wire, galvanised
wire, PC strand wire, Al clad wire, cold-heading wire, CO2
welding wire, etc.
The SB dry cleaning system replaces the most costly
operations in wire rod cleaning process (including acid and
other aggressive wet chemicals), generating cost savings,
environmental benefits and improvement of productivity.
Installed in-line after a simple rod reverse bending descaler,
the SB system removes excess rod scale and rust,
converting over 95 per cent of rod scale into useful
micro-abrading medium, providing efficiency and simplicity
in rod dry cleaning applications, H/C and L/C, including
0.98%C.
Continuously liberated rod scale provides in-line an extremely
reactive about 5-micron size texture enabling powder lubricant
to be chemically and mechanically interlocked to rod surface,
forming a hard and consistent anti-wear and anti-friction
conversion coating that is found to perform comparably to or
better than zinc phosphate.
This achieves in-line direct drawing from mechanically
descaled uncoated bare rod, at virtually zero energy
consumption and zero maintenance cost, in a totally green and
dry application.
Decalub – France
Website:
Rod rust removal by
captured scale – dry,
green and clean
❍ Rod and wire cleaning by SB brushing system