Cold stretched
Steel wire bars

Machines and wire equipments

General description

Cold stretched steel wire bar is a product obtained starting from the rebar in coil that is transformed with the process of stretching (through stretching panels equipped with stretching rolls) made without heat supply and packaged on bundle of bars.

Cold stretched steel wire bar, thanks to the stretching process that increase the elongation of the rebar in coil according to the grade of stretching set is a product that increases the mechanical properties of the wire rods according to the market requirements in terms of tensile strength, yield strength and final elongation ( normally called Agt) practically without changing the entry wire diameter.

The final product applications are normally reinforcing mesh, stirrups, cages and lattice girders for the civil and industrial construction, foundations and precast industry.

Compared to a hot rolling plant, the advantages of a stretching rolling plant are the much lower investment costs, the space required for the installation, the cheaper cost of the steel heat (no need to add expensive alloy elements and no need to do any additional heat treatment like “water quenching” process commonly called Termex or Tempcore, greater flexibility and rapidity production changes of the diameter sizes, the quality of packaging of the final product, the limited number of operators (usually only one operator controls the whole plant) and the production and maintenance costs.

Cold stretched steel wire bar is a product obtained starting from the rebar in coil that is transformed with the process of stretching (through stretching panels equipped with stretching rolls) made without heat supply and packaged on bundle of bars.

Cold stretched steel wire bar, thanks to the stretching process that increase the elongation of the rebar in coil according to the grade of stretching set is a product that increases the mechanical properties of the wire rods according to the market requirements in terms of tensile strength, yield strength and final elongation ( normally called Agt) practically without changing the entry wire diameter.

The final product applications are normally reinforcing mesh, stirrups, cages and lattice girders for the civil and industrial construction, foundations and precast industry.

Compared to a hot rolling plant, the advantages of a stretching rolling plant are the much lower investment costs, the space required for the installation, the cheaper cost of the steel heat (no need to add expensive alloy elements and no need to do any additional heat treatment like “water quenching” process commonly called Termex or Tempcore, greater flexibility and rapidity production changes of the diameter sizes, the quality of packaging of the final product, the limited number of operators (usually only one operator controls the whole plant) and the production and maintenance costs.

Due to the continuous improvement made by our internal research and development department, we are able to supply complete machines or just single unit that, depending on the quality of the entry wire rod material, can produce exit wire material compliant to the local countries norms for the concrete applications like for example (but not only): ASTM A82, ASTM A706, ASTM A1064, DIN 488, SFS1300, IRAM/IAS U500, NCH1173, NBR7480, NCT2289, AS/NZS4671, NTP339 for the production of material according to the grade B500B, B500C, grade 60, grade 80, CA-50 and CA-60.

Thanks to more than 40 years of experience in the field of process of rolling, we manufacture high performances automatic turn key plants, that are tailor made on the needs of our customers in terms of layout, products sizes, mechanical properties, level of automation and which allow to finally reduce the transformation costs for each tons of steel wire produced.

Our offer is not limited to the construction of machines and equipment. If required, we are also able to supply valid training, technical assistance and consulting to improve the production of the stretching process; These services are the keys to reach the target and maintain it over time in terms of efficiency and performance of the plant as well as in terms of correct mechanical properties of the wire produced.

Technical specifications

Working Speed (max) Up To 8 m/s For Bars – Up To 10 m/s For Coils/Spools
Inlet Wire Diameter 6 ÷ 18 mm
Wire quality at entrance low carbon wire rod
Outlet wire diameter 6 ÷ 18 mm
Type of wire at exit Ribbed wire
Bar length Up to 12 meters
Coil weight (max) Up to 8 tons
*above technical data are indicative and subjected to change, based on customer requirements.

Final products

Our stretching machine for bars is the following

COLD STRETCHING AND STRAIGHTENING MACHINE TYPE GEMINISTAR

The Geministar machine is born to offer the best quality and performance in the stretching and straightening process of the bars.

Thanks to a bullblock that pulls the wire through a pair of automatic stretching panels, you can set and record the grade of stretching desired to reach the final mechanical properties on the material according the specific country rules for concrete applications. The final product is a high ductility material, requested in case of anti-seismic applications.

The machine offers several advantages like a high customization and various numbers and type of devices that can be installed inside the Geministar body.

The shape and engineering details of the lines allow to produce high-quality cold stretched steel bars with excellent straightness. The final product can feed any type of welding reinforcing mesh machine or cut and bend equipment.

In the highest level of automation of our plants, the above mentioned lines can be equipped with automatic vertical wire spoolers that make all the operations like insertion of the wire, cutting, change of the spools, samples taking, strapping, labeling and weighing of the coils without any intervention of the operator.

This system allows to produce high-quality cold stretched bars or layer to layer cold stretched coils packaged in fixed or take a part spools.

Normally, the bars or the coils produced are used for reinforcing mesh, stirrups, cages and lattice girders for the civil and industrial construction, foundations and precast industry.

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