Industrial Wire Lubricants

Wire Drawing Lubricants

Pre-coats, compounds, emulsions, and gels designed to promote lubricant pickup, drawing speed, surface quality, and cleanability.

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Pre-Coats

Water-soluble, reactive, and non-reactive systems for carbon steel and stainless wire with low humidity absorption.

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  • Reactive Pre-Coats
  • NuDraw PC40 is formulated to provide a tenacious coating on ferrous rod with thermoisture resistance characteristics for wire processing in humid plant conditions. NUDRAW PC40 is a single step coating and lubricant carrier containing specialty select polymers and wetting agents to form a heavier coatingwhen compared to other alkaline pre-coats. NUDRAW PC40 is a single-stage, one tank coating compound that is easy to control by hydrometer testing procedure and easily removed in alkaline or hot water cleaning. NuDraw PC40 may be used in dip tank or strand immersion applications.
  • NuDraw F104 is wet chemistry that is a mixture of salts for coating low to high carbon and stainless-steel wire. NuDraw F104 is for in-line wire coating of various diameters of spring and oil tempered wire. This chloride free coating has low moisture absorption, cleans efficiently, minimal dusting and increases drawing speeds. NuDraw F104 is for use after machanical descaling of carbon and stainless-steel wire.

Drawing Compounds

Sodium, calcium, and blended soap compounds for carbon, stainless, and non-ferrous wire drawing and cold heading.

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  • NuDraw 212 is a sodium tallowate lubricant used for wire drawing as well as yellow metal forming.
    NuDraw 212 is a water soluble granular powder and does not contain lime, sulfur, phosphorus or chlorine.
    Uses
    NuDraw 212 is a lubricant for high or low speed single hole drawing for all ranges of ferrous rod and wire. It is suitable for use with lime coated, borax coated, or phosphate coated ferrous and stainless steel stock. Specific uses include drawing copper coated wire, bright basic, weld wire (both solid and cored), and plating wire.
    In addition to draw box and wire drawing applications NuDraw 212can be dissolved in hot water and applied over various metallic substrates for drawing and extrusions as a non-reactive lubricant.
    Draw Box/Wire Drawing Applications
    NuDraw 212 is applied as received in each draft, 212 produces a transparent, readily removed finish.
    Immersion Applications
    NuDraw 212 is dissolved in hot water with continuous agitation.
    NuDraw 212 is dissolved in hot water with continuous agitation at concentrations ranging from 0.25 to 1 pound per gallon. The concentration required will vary with the application.
    To prepare the lubricant fill the tank to the three-quarter level with water anf heat to desired operating temperature (Typically 180-200 F). While mixing add the desired quantity of NuDraw 212.
    Add water to the working level and continue mixing. Heat to operating temperature range, 180-200°F. Immersion time is usually 1-5 minutes.
  • NuDraw 219
  • NuDraw 220 is a medium titer, high fat content, soluble soap. It is manufactured under controlled conditions that ensure product uniformity and low moisture. NuDraw 220 is for low carbon and medium carbon steel
  • Mechanically descaled and acid cleaned and coated rod
  • Borax, Lime, Reactive or Formulated precoats
  • Stainless steel wire

Recommended operating parameters

  • Up to 10 holes
  • A wide variety of rod breakdown and finished wire sizes
  • Works very well in a wide range of speeds
  • Works great for nail wire
  • NuDraw 247 is a partially soluble powder lubricant containing viscosity modifiers and EP additives giving the advantage of multiple melting points. NuDraw 247 is manufactured under controlled conditions that ensure product uniformity, low moisture content, and product quality. NuDraw 247 is versatile, multipurpose lubricant that may be used in many applications.
  • Low carbon and medium carbon steel
  • Mechanically descaled and acid cleaned and coated rod
  • Borax, Lime, Reactive or Formulated precoats
  • Stainless steel wire

Recommended operating parameters:

  • Up to 10 holes
  • A wide variety of rod breakdown and finished wire sizes
  • Works very well in a wide range of speeds
  • Nudraw 1948 is a partially soluble powder lubricant containing viscosity modifiers and EP additives giving the advantage of multiple melting points. NuDraw 1948 is manufactured under controlled conditions that ensure product uniformity, low moisture content, and product quality. NuDraw 1948 is versatile, multipurpose lubricant that may be used in many applications.
  • Low carbon and medium carbon steel
  • Mechanically descaled and acid cleaned and coated rod
  • Borax, Lime, Reactive or Formulated precoats
  • Stainless steel wire

Recommended operating parameters:

  • Up to 10 holes
  • A wide variety of rod breakdown and finished wire sizes
  • Works very well in a wide range of speeds

Emulsions

Semi-synthetic drawing fluids for copper rod and wire with lubricity, bio-stability, and pH control.

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  • NuDraw 1040C is a highly concentrated semi-synthetic copper rod & wire drawing lubricant with better overall performance then the competition. NuDraw 1040C has a unique additive package that gives it better lubricity, bio-stability resulting in a clean long lasting bath. It is designed to offer optimum performance in most drawing applications, most types of water and is very pH stable. The lubricity and wetting characteristics of the product reduces dry copper fines. The Capstan surfaces, die throats, and machines stay cleaner.
  • NuDraw SP-51 can be used in final drawing of copper sheet, strip and coated wire. It effectively minimizes friction, enhances brightness of non-ferrous metals without oxidation.

Oils, Grease and Gels

Thixotropic organic calcium complex gels and grease for corrosion-resistant product systems.

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  • NuThix 2358 is a thixotropic organic calcium complex that can be used as an additive or concentrate to formulate a variety of corrosion-resistant products.
    Corrosion Inhibitor Flash Rush Inhibitor
    45% in mineral oil
    Brown viscous thixotropic gel
    Density (g/ml) 1.02 @ 15.6°C
    Flash Point (°C) 175
  • Mineral Oils
  • Synthetic Oils
  • Drawing Oils
  • Piercing Oils
  • Stamping Oils
  • Pastes and Soaps
  • Emulsions
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