Weld Wire

Our weld wire sheathing material is used in both flux cored wire and metal cored welding wire processes. The wire sheathing is formed into a tubular product by our customers and the center of the tube contains the ‘fill’ (flux, metal powders, etc) to bring the wire to the desired chemistry. The finished wire is used across a wide breadth of industries in processes such as:

• Submerged Arc Welding (SMAW)
• Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW)
• Wire Arc Thermal Spray

Flux cored welding wire producers use our metal sheathing materials to prepare finished wire for thermal spray and in surfacing applications, in high temperature and corrosive environments.

Cobalt

Our Ductile Cobalt Alloys are used to produce wire to hardface applications in the construction, mining, and oil and gas industry. Our proprietary process allows us to offer high Cobalt containing products (91% Cobalt or more) while maintaining a highly ductile strip for wire forming. The finished products are used to:

• Hard-face shirt-tails, bit skirts, reamers, valves and other down-hole equipment requiring some of the toughest materials in the oil and gas industry
• Improve wear resistance during metal-to-metal contact
• Enhance abrasion resistance in earth moving construction equipment

We have the expertise to engineer grades of Cobalt Iron sheath for applications requiring minimal Iron content.

Nickel

Our Pure Nickel sheathing materials find end-uses in environments where the non-corrosive properties of the nickel will help to shield structures from the chemicals that they contain. The retained strength of Nickel products at high temperatures and resistance to abrasion further enhance the suitability of Nickel in these harsh environments.

Nickel Iron

We offer a range of Nickel-Iron materials with standard products ranging from 36% to 55% Nickel (balance Iron). The finished wire products are generally used in the build-up, joining and repair of iron-based pipe and other iron-based products as well as the joining of dissimilar iron-based materials. Our elemental blending process of binary Nickel Iron alloys allows us the capability to make small blends (500 lbs or less) of special chemistry materials to supplement our standard products.

Nickel-Chrome

Our standard offering of Nickel Chrome strip products contain a chrome percentage ranging from 10-35% Chrome (balance Nickel). The 35% Chrome (AMETEK 835) is one of the highest chrome containing products offered in the industry and our high purity process allows for elongations above 45% for even those products containing Silicon additions between 1% and 2%. Our customers wire operates in applications such as steam boilers and associated piping in the in the harshest high temperatures and corrosive environments.