Wire
5 - 6.3 mm PACO

The basis of any high quality metal wire cloth is an exactly formed wire. That is why for decades PACO has kept extremely close ties with some of the world's best wire manufacturers. This ensures the best possible starting point for the demands that PACO places on its own processing and finishing as well as the specific requirements of each individual customer.

Wire is drawn by pulling wire rods that are initially relatively thick (diameter approx. 5 - 6.3 mm) a number of times through draw plates that decrease the diameter in tiny increments. Between the drawing stages, the wire is annealed to re-crystallize it. This helps ensure that the wire retains the physical properties demanded by PACO throughout the multiple-stage drawing process. The wire sizes used by PACO go down to a fineness of 0.016 mm (16/1000 mm). The particular challenge to the wirepuller is to produce a wire that is within a close tolerance of the specified wire diameter from the first to the last meter of the wire - throughout a length of a number of kilometres!

All wires used by PACO undergo an intensive quality assurance process before they are released for the next stage in the production procedure.