Few involved in the supply of fasteners these days get to see them manufactured. Even fewer have the privilege to witness the complex and sophisticated industrial processes that lay behind the provision of high-grade cold heading steel wire, the essential raw material of the fastener industry. With the assistance of Europe’s second largest steel producer, Tata Steel and its wire rod division, we’re aiming in this series of articles to provide at least a glimpse of this highly technical manufacturing process operating on a massive scale. (…)
via Modern steelmaking.