Wire drawing dies are the most important tool in wire drawing due to their direct bearing on quality of wire and economy of the drawing process. We at IBI understand the need for the search from wire manufacturers for harder, more wear resistant and finer die materials for manufacturing quality wire economically.
Each diamond is individually inspected to ensure that all diamonds used are free from internal defects. Each diamond is x-ray oriented to ensure maximum wear ability and is properly mounted, precisely profiled, highly polished and accurately sized to offer uniform wire reduction, minimum die pull and excellent wire surface quality.
- Natural Diamond Dies gives good luster, shine and surface to copper wire
- Good drawability for copper alloys and coated wires.
- Low friction and requires less energy for wire drawing and fine wire drawing.
- Gives close tolerances compared to Tungsten Carbide dies.
- Super fine wire sizes of 10 micron and below can be drawn only by Natural Diamond dies.
IBI PCD dies are manufactured by mixing the selected diamond powder of specific grain size with metallic bonding material and sintered at high temperature and ultra high pressure. This results in a homogeneous very hard and highly abrasive resistance blank having high thermal conductivity like natural diamond. Different blank dimensions and grain sizes are available to suit almost every drawing requirement.
- Uniform pricing.
- Cost per kg of wire drawn is much less compared to any other die material.
- Withstands rough and tough working.
- GAssured number of re-cuts and can be resized to maximum recommended size.
- Lower inventory.
- No premature breakages.
- Less repairs and less reconditioning work.
- By correct selection of grain size, required finish can be achieved for different drawing applications.
- With the increased usage, the cost of PCD blanks/dies is decreasing.
Further research and development resulted in synthetic mono crystalline diamonds which are available in triangles and rectangles with an edge length of approximately 8mm. Mono crystalline diamond dies is suitable for the same applications as natural diamond dies.
- Supreme surface finish of any die material available.
- Lowest die pull and friction.
- X ray oriented diamond provides
- Greater consistency .
- Predictable wear.
- Predictable wear