This year marks eight years. The plant is a 7,000 m² wire manufacturing facility in the Muradiye Organized Industrial Zone (Muradiye OSB), Manisa. Under one roof we run wire rod receiving, cold drawing, annealing, cut-to-length, flat-bar profiling, and packaging. That single-site…
Drawing die maintenance — small things that decide our tonne cost (2012)
Drawing dies are consumables. How we maintain them decides three things: surface quality on the wire, drawing energy per tonne, and yield. We inspect and rotate dies on a fixed schedule and pull one out of service the moment its wear…
Fastener manufacturer moves to bright-drawn from black-drawn — smoother heading, less die wear (2012)
A fastener manufacturer we have supplied for several years switched from black-drawn to bright-drawn wire for their higher-run parts. The reason was header die wear. Bright surface produces less friction at forming; die life goes up. Coating-ready surface is a bonus….
Automotive and appliance demand — 2012 outlook (2012)
Automotive sub-supply and white-goods manufacturing both continue to pull cold-drawn wire in 2012. Tensile tolerance keeps tightening. Automotive sub-supply grows in the Ege region. Wire buyers are asking for tighter tensile tolerance. Our production planning is now built around a two-shift…
EN 10204 3.1 inspection certificates — why we default to them in 2012 (2012)
EN 10204 3.1 is a “specific inspection document” — validated by our inspection department, independent of the production line — that certifies the material meets ordered specification and gives real test results from the actual heat. In 2012 it is treated…
White-goods buyers keep raising the bar on wire surface (2012)
Turkey’s white-goods sector — refrigerators, ovens, dishwashers — remains one of the biggest end-users of our cold-drawn wire in 2012. The pattern is consistent: surface has to be clean enough for a paint or coating step, tensile has to be tight…
Cut-to-length wire and why the length tolerance matters (2012)
Cut-to-length wire looks like a commodity from the outside. Inside a fastener mill or a welding-electrode plant, one millimetre of length variance across a pallet is a real problem. In 2012 we run straightening and cutting lines that hold length tolerance…
Looking back on 2011 — production, customers, and what changed (2011)
2011 brought steady demand across our end sectors and continued expectation on documentation quality. Steel prices are volatile after the recovery. Wire mills are watching wire-rod feedstock cost daily. We exported to Europe and the Middle East. Cold-drawn and annealed remained…
TS 2348 — Turkish standard for annealed wire (2011)
TS 2348 covers annealed low-carbon steel wire. We reference it on domestic and select regional shipments in 2011. Full-annealed and inter-annealed cycles are selected by the target tensile and the customer’s downstream process. Turkish standards remain a natural reference for our…
Export destinations — where our wire is going in 2011 (2011)
In 2011 our export mix is: Europe and the Middle East. Different destinations have different documentation expectations. Every export shipment travels with an EN 10204 3.1 inspection certificate and a commercial pack that includes packing list, invoice, and country-of-origin documentation on…