Supplier's Category: All Wire Forming & Drawing: Shaping and reducing wire stock into springs, shapes, or fine gauges
Wire forming and drawing shapes and reduces wire stock into springs, formed shapes, or finer gauges — drawing reduces diameter by pulling wire through progressively smaller dies, forming bends it into a final part shape. Both are continuous, high-speed processes for wire-based components.
These are high-speed, tooling-based processes that make the most sense at production volume, where per-part cost drops fast once tooling is set up.
- Wire drawing: reducing raw wire to a specific gauge and mechanical property
- Wire forming: springs, clips, and formed wire components at high-volume, repeatable production
- Both: continuous processes suited to long production runs rather than one-off parts
Related terms: wire drawing, wire forming, spring winding, die drawing, wire tempering, cold-drawn wire properties, spring index and rate calculation, wire gauge tolerancing, CNC wire forming
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Typical applications
Formed and drawn wire parts show up across a wide range of mechanical assemblies.
- Automotive and appliances: springs, clips, and retaining components
- Medical devices: fine-gauge wire forms and implantable components
- Electronics and hardware: formed contacts, terminals, and fasteners