02/03/2023 – Research / Wire manufacturing
Sustainable wire production through recycling
The constantly growing global challenges require the responsible and economical use of available resources. One possibility to reduce the energy demand in wire production is the friction-induced recycling of presumed rejects and scrap.
Fig. 2: Typical semi-finished product geometries that were successfully produced using the friction-induced recycling process. © LUF
Fig. 2: Typical semi-finished product geometries that were successfully produced using the friction-induced recycling process. © LUF
Fig. 1: Functional principle of the friction-induced recycling process. Based on the continuous reduction of the channel cross-section, the particles are continuously compressed and reshaped according to [1]. © LUF