Descaling wire rod in high-speed drawing lines

摘要

STEELTEC, a Schmolz + Bickenbach Group company, is a producer of special steels with manufacturing locations in Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. At its two sites in Emmenbrucke, Switzerland, the company draws wire rod and bar stock into bright steel rods. The company originally used chemical descaling to clean the wire rod and bars before drawing. It installed its first high-performance single-strand shot blast machines in the 1970s and, over time, mechanical descaling using Wheelabrator's shot blast machines has gradually replaced chemical descaling (in immersion baths).