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and for wire treatment
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Speciality products
for cleaning
and coating
Diversity and versatility are the keys to success in today’s wire and tube
industries. Heatbath Corporation formulates, manufactures and services
a comprehensive line of custom products to meet the varying demands
of cleaning and coating processes.
Heatbath’s technical expertise combined with production experience
ensures sound product recommendations for increased productivity.
Heatbath Corporation supplies products for alkaline cleaning, scale
conditioning, acid inhibition, conditioners and neutralisers, zinc
phosphates, immersion copper, oxalate coatings for stainless steel
and both reactive and non-reactive lubricants. Heatbath Corporation
is ISO 9001 certified and has blending facilities in Indian Orchard, MA,
Chicago, IL and Detroit, MI.
Heatbath Corporation – USA Website :
Cleaning and coating technologies ❍ ❍
for metal forming
IRIS anti-rust products
Yangzhou Zhonghua South Technology Co Ltd specialises in the development,
production and sale of IRIS grease for steel wire ropes and anti-rust oil for metal
products and petroleum pipes. The company is also equipped to undertake trials,
the production of additives, treatment of base oil, preparation of oil products, storage
and inspection.
IRIS grease products are effective in prolonging the usage of wire rope, with
strong adhesion, excellent lubricity, anti-rust qualities and a high dropping point
to suit wide temperature ranges experienced, for example, in the mining industry.
IRIS grease products are easy to use. After 24 hours solidification a sticky soft
lubricating film forms on the steel wire rope surface. IRIS diversified products
are already in use to protect port machinery, engineering machinery, elevator
equipment, petroleum machinery and mine steel wire ropes.
Yangzhou Zhonghua South Technology Co Ltd – China
Fax: +86 514 8776 1057 Email:
Non-reactive wire drawing precoats
Since its foundation in 1854, Condat has specialised in developing chemical
products for the wire drawing industry, now adding several new precoats
to its Vicafil TS product line. The new products can replace borax and zinc
phosphate in many batch and inline applications.
For stainless steel: Vicafil TS 1545 creates a rough, adherent crystal structure
which significantly improves lubricant pick-up and drawability for both single
and multi-pass operations found in spring wire and cold heading applications.
Vicafil TS 1545 also exhibits low moisture pick-up, even at high relative
humidity levels.
For carbon steel: Vicafil TS 1550 is a non-toxic, sludge free, environmentally
friendly salt coating, containing no boron salts. It has low moisture pick up
with better corrosion resistance for both before and after drawing. Vicafil TS
1550 can be used after pickling or with mechanical descale processes to
improve drawing performance.
Condat AS – France
Fax: +33 47807 3885 Email: Website :
Pickling agent
TI 70
For titanium and titanium alloys,
Condoroil has developed a series
of pickling products, free of nitric,
hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid.
Pickling agent TI 70 offers the
following advantages:
no emission of nitrogen oxides •
into the atmosphere
no nitrates in the solution •
no metal embrittlement since no •
hydrogen is generated
no corrosion of the surface and •
of the weld bead
no risk of material over-pickling •
no exothermic reaction •
reduction of titanium con- •
sumption
no fluorides in the waste •
allows the use of common •
stainless steel tanks
no problem of superficial colour- •
ing of the material before the
piece is rinsed with water, as
happens with traditional pickling
spent product and rinse water •
can be purified simply by adding
lime milk
In addition, by working at higher
concentrations it is possible to
achieve a smoothing of the metal
roughness and therefore to get a
bright, satin finished surface.
Condoroil Impianti Srl – Italy
Fax: +39 0332 945303
Email:
Website :