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March 2016 64
Wire rod rust, the most destructive natural disaster in the wire
drawing industry, 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-headed wire, CO2 welding wire, etc.
The SB dry cleaning system replaces the most costly operations
in the wire rod cleaning process (including acid and other
aggressive wet chemicals), generating dramatic cost savings,
environmental benefits and improvement of productivity.
The SB system is reported to be the most innovative rod
dry cleaning method that removes excess of rod scale and
rust, converting over 95 per cent of rod scale into useful
micro-abrading medium, providing extreme 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 5-micron size texture enabling powder lubricant to be
chemically and mechanically interlocked to the rod surface,
forming a hard and consistent anti-wear and anti-friction
conversion coating that is found to perform comparable 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.
The SB is an in-line acid-free wire rod dry cleaning technique that
enables wire direct drawing from mechanically descaled rod,
generating dramatically lower operating cost, benefiting from
significant energy and maintenance time savings, and complete
environmentally friendly wire rod cleaning process.
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Rod scale and rust removal – acid-free, dry,
green and clean
▲ ▲ Rod and wire cleaning by SB brushing system