Development of an Innovative and Quality-Focused Production Technology for Magnesium Wire

摘要

In order to meet customer requirements, technology developments need to stay focused at process rationalization and quality improvements. Combining the twin-roll casting technology and caliber rolling technology for magnesium wire, customer demands concerning cost-efficiency and high quality can be satisfied. The resulting long products can be applied in the automotive industry and aircraft sector as joining and welding elements or in biomedicine as screws. For this purpose, the paper analyzes potential application fields and their induced quality properties. Special requirements of illustrative magnesium long products are shown by adapting existing requirements of aluminum wire. Finally, the innovative magnesium wire production technology will be explained and the advantages, in particular the resource efficiency, of the developed technology will be discussed.