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The Basics
WIR's OTC custom wire forms and welded wire forms often produce amazing results – eliminating metal waste, and reducing product weight. Wire forms can also increase a product's efficiency, and eliminate secondary machining operations. This translates into a reduced inventory production time and can lead to enormous cost savings.
Complex designs with numerous secondary forming, welding, and assembly operations are easily produced by WIR's OTC Program in tubing (round, square, rectangular and flat oval), wire and solid rod. Our state-of-the-art production machinery can process flat wire, half round, and many other shapes including a wide variety of special and exotic shapes. In addition, we have the in-house capability to produce stamping and other metal/plastic forming operations reducing your costs and product lead times.
In order for us to manufacture superior parts at a fair price, we have a large resource of dependable, certified suppliers. Our vendors are certified by meeting our rigorous standards that we consider to be essential for the production of high-quality wire forms.
WIR's OTC Wire Forms can be done in bright low carbon steel, stainless steel, copper, brass, and aluminum, to name just a few materials.
Our wire forming processes include:
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The Tooling
It is essential that your product doesn't just work but works perfectly. WIR's craftsmen and production equipment can meet any challenge, ensuring that your product works perfectly. Our engineers can provide plenty of enhancements to your products that will improve their performance and reduce their cost. Since all tooling operations take place in our shop, our development cycle turn around is one of the quickest in the industry - getting your product to the production line faster.
All of this adds up to you receiving high-quality parts at the right price that help reduce down time and increase efficiency. That means you save money. From tool design and engineering to production parts and tool samples, WIR's OTC Program delivers.
WIR also offers a full array of secondary operations including punching, drilling, tapping, threading, crimping, reaming, riviting, hemming, swaging, chamfering, deburring, grooving, piercing and CNC machining of companion components.
The Welding
At WIR, every weld in our OTC custom wire form and welded wire product that are produced meets our demanding quality standards. We employ environmentally-friendly, fully automated resistance welding techniques at every cross wire intersection and on all butt welds. The result? Clean, precision, and repeatable welding with minimal weld flash and splatter. This results in stronger and more attractive wire forms that deliver reliable performance year after year.
Our expertise includes butt welds, tee welds, cross wire welds, projection welding, and arc welding. At WIR, welding is not considered a secondary operation but instead is treated as a primary operation to making superior custom wire form solutions.
The Finishes
Custom wire forms require a custom finish and WIR can provide that perfect finishing touch to provide a product/part that meets your qualifications for appearance, durability and design specifications. At WIR, we offer precise in-house finishing and a large number of coating options.
We offer finishes in raw, primed, painted, anodized, heat treating, zinc plating, powder coating and polyvinylchloride (PVC) coatings in an array of standard and custom colors. We also offer nickel plating, epoxy powder coating, and a variety of other finishes as well.
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