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Steel Wire Rod SAE1008
Performance Advantages
Superb Cold Formability: Its extremely low carbon content is the key to its exceptional plastic deformation capabilities. Whether it's complex deep drawing and stretching, precision cold heading, or rigorous cold rolling and ironing, wire rod SAE1008 can easily handle it, effectively reducing work hardening and cracking risks, significantly improving yield and processing efficiency.
Excellent Weldability: Its low carbon content ensures excellent weldability, allowing it to be welded using a variety of methods, including resistance welding (spot welding, seam welding), arc welding (MIG/MAG), and laser welding. The weld quality is stable and reliable, with minimal hardening and cold cracking in the heat-affected zone.
Balanced Mechanical Properties: While maintaining excellent ductility, through appropriate composition control and rolling processes, it achieves a strength and hardness foundation that meets a wide range of requirements, providing the necessary mechanical support for subsequent processing or the final product.
Balanced Mechanical Properties: While maintaining excellent ductility, through appropriate composition control and rolling processes, it achieves a strength and hardness foundation that meets a wide range of requirements, providing the necessary mechanical support for subsequent processing or the final product.
Excellent Surface Quality: High-quality wire rod requires a smooth surface, free of detrimental defects such as scabs, folds, and cracks. This is crucial for subsequent processing or direct application.
Outstanding Cost-Effectiveness: As one of the most basic low-carbon steel wire rods, SAE1008 offers highly competitive procurement costs while meeting performance requirements, making it a wise choice for balancing performance and budget.
| Performance Specifications | Typical Range | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tensile Strength (Rm) | 330 - 440 MPa | Moderate strength, meeting basic load-bearing and processing requirements. |
| Yield Strength (Rp0.2) | 190 - 300 MPa | The low yield point facilitates cold forming. |
| Hardness (HRB) | 50 - 70 | Lower hardness makes it susceptible to cold working deformation. |
Applications
The versatility and reliability of SAE1008 prime steel wire rod make it a key player in numerous industrial sectors.
Deep-drawn products: automotive fuel tanks, oil filter housings, small pressure vessel housings, metal utensils (cups, bowls, cans), electronic and electrical housings, metal penholders, and lighting accessories.
Cold-headed fasteners and special-shaped parts: bolts, screws, nuts, rivets, pins, washers, and various complex special-shaped parts (such as automotive seat adjuster parts and household appliance components).
Welding wire: solid wire for gas shielded welding (MIG/MAG) (e.g., ER70S-6), flux-cored wire strip, and submerged arc welding wire.
Construction and hardware wire mesh: annealed wire (iron wire), galvanized wire, nails, mesh cloth, wire mesh, guardrail mesh, tying wire, wire rope strands, and small household hardware items.
Deep Processing Potential: From Wire Rod to High-Value-Added Products
Drawing: Thicker wire rod (Ø5.5mm - Ø20mm) is gradually drawn through a die into finer wire (Ø0.1mm - Ø6.0mm or even finer).
Annealing: This eliminates the hardened structure caused by cold working (such as drawing and cold rolling), restores the material's plasticity and toughness, and reduces strength and hardness, making it easier to process further, such as deep drawing and cold heading.
Pickling: This removes the iron oxide scale (scale) on the surface of the hot-rolled wire rod, providing a clean surface for subsequent drawing or coating.
Coating/Lubricating: Before drawing, a lime, borax, phosphate coating, or specialized drawing lubricant coating is applied to significantly reduce friction during the drawing process, protect the die, and improve the wire surface quality.
Coating: This imparts corrosion resistance, decorative properties, or special functionalities (such as electrical conductivity or weldability) to the wire.
Our Core Advantages
Choosing us as your SAE 1008 quality steel wire rod supplier will ensure you exceed your expectations with reliable guarantees:
Abundant Inventory and Comprehensive Specifications: Our large, modern warehouse ensures ample stock of common specifications (Φ5.5mm - Φ16mm) to meet your immediate needs, bulk purchases, and special specifications. We also support value-added services like slitting and coiling, minimizing inventory pressure and capital tie-up.
Professional Quality Inspection and Transparent Data: Equipped with advanced testing equipment, key batches undergo third-party re-inspection by authoritative institutions to ensure 100% compliance with core indicators such as chemical composition, mechanical properties, dimensional tolerances, and surface quality. All test reports are available for peace of mind.
Price Competitiveness and Cost Optimization: Leveraging scaled procurement and efficient supply chain management, we offer highly competitive pricing. Our consistent quality helps you significantly reduce production waste and downtime costs, achieving optimal overall costs.
| Nominal Diameter (mm) | Surface Condition | Main Applications |
|---|---|---|
| 5.5, 6.5 | Hot-rolled, smooth finish | Wire drawing (welding wire, wire mesh), cold heading |
| 8.0, 9.0 | Hot-rolled, smooth finish | Cold heading, cold rolling, deep drawing, construction wire |
| 10.0, 12.0 | Hot-rolled, smooth finish | Standard parts, hardware, structural parts |
| 14.0, 16.0 | Hot-rolled, smooth finish | For larger structural parts and special applications |
| Custom Specifications | Annealing/Pickling Available | Meet Specific Processing Needs |
Choose SAE1008, the starting point for efficiency and reliability.
SAE1008 low-carbon steel wire, with its exceptional deep-drawing performance, excellent cold-working adaptability, stable welding characteristics, and outstanding cost-effectiveness, has long become an indispensable basic raw material in modern manufacturing. Whether shaping precision automotive parts, constructing sturdy building structures, weaving fine wire mesh, or fusing strong engineering welds, SAE1008 silently plays a critical role as the "backbone" of industry.
Choosing high-quality SAE1008 wire lays the most solid foundation for your product quality and production efficiency!
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