Wire drawing

Wire drawing is a forming process in which a coarse wire, originally produced by forging and today mostly by rolling, is cold drawn through the tapered opening of a drawing die, drawing die or rolling stand. This reduces the diameter and stretches the length of the wire without losing any material. This process allows the wire to be brought to the desired target diameter in several steps. Depending on the wire diameter, a distinction is made in wire drawing between coarse drawing, medium drawing, fine drawing and scratch drawing.