Wire rod is a long steel semi-finished product manufactured by hot rolling billets on continuous rolling mills. It has a round cross-section and is wound up in coils.

Unlike other steel products, wire rod exhibits a significant commodity range variety; based on its chemical composition the following families of products and their differing corresponding uses can be identified:

• • 1. Mild steel rod used to manufacture welded mesh and drawn rods (black, annealed, and coated)

    2. Wire rod with medium or high carbon content used to manufacture drawn

    3. Welding rod

    4. Special steel rods are used in hot and cold die-pressing, drawing, and extrusion.

A Wire rod is a finished product in a steel plant rolled from the billet in a wire rod mill. It is mainly used for the production of steel wire which is then subjected to further processing.

Steel wire rod is normally cold drawn into wire suitable for further processing such as drawing, cold rolling, cold heading, cold upsetting, cold extrusion, or cold or for hot forging.

Wire Rod is used for many products. It is the raw material for the wire drawing units. Different uses for the wire rod include wire ropes, wire nails, springs, electrodes, barbed wires, steel reinforcement for aluminum conductors and pre-stressed concrete, wire mesh, fasteners, automobile components and hardware manufacturers, etc.