In-house Technical Services

With over 50 years of manufacturing wire products, Central Wire has established a deep knowledge base of wire processing and customer requirements. Our technical staff and distributed manufacturing facilities throughout North America can provide specialized metallurgical expertise from initial product design, through to full production.

In-House technical staff can perform a wide range of services which include PPAP preparation and submissions, new product design, provide recommendation to application requirements, process improvement, metallurgical analysis and root cause identification process. The technical services team is staffed by metallurgists and technologists proficient in not only the product, but the full range of applications of each product.

Testing processes include:

• Tensile testing ; ASTM A370, E8
• Torsion testing ; ASTM A938 ; ISO 7800
• Macro hardness testing ; ASTM E18
• Micro hardness testing ; ASTM E384
• Metallography ; ASTM E3
• Grain size measurement ; ASTM E112
• Cold bend testing ; ASTM A313, A370 ; ISO 7801
• Wrap testing ; ASTM A370 ; ISO 7802
• Coiling test ; ASTM A370
• Intergranular corrosion testing – Austenitic grades ; ASTM A262
• Intergranular corrosion testing – Ferritic grades ; ASTM A763