Western India Wire Industries

Western India Wire Industries is one of the pioneering units for manufacture of steel welded wire mesh or fabrics. Established in 1969, this plant has been meeting the diverse requirements of customers with consistency and reliability of supplies with an unmatched reputation for quality and timely deliveries.

The plant operations are overseen by a team of technocrats headed by Mr Vijay Dodeja, B.E (civil), M. Tech (struc).

The plant is spread over a sprawling area of 40,000 sq. ft and is equipped with 2 fully automatic mesh welding lines of 2.7m (9ft) and 3.3m (11ft) width respectively.

The mesh sizes manufactured are with a spacing range of 25mm to 400mm with wire diameters of 2.0 mm to 12.0 mm diameters. Materials used are mild steel hard bright drawn wires( ungalvanised) or hot dipped pre-galvanised wires or stainless steel wires. Ungalvanised wires are drawn in-house from controlled quality mild steel wire rods. The plants are equipped with necessary downstream facilities such as heavy duty shears , trimmer and coiler along with overhead crane for meeting large-scale mission critical requirements of projects.

The joining of the wires at the intersection is achieved by electric resistance welding. This is by a combination of heavy electric current (applied at low voltage) passed through the junction of wires, combined with heavy mechanical pressure. A solid state thyristor regulated electronic control ensures very fine control of time (in cycles) and current amplitude (total phase angle) All the spacings between wires are controlled by an automatic mechanism of high reliability.

The wires used in the fabric are cold drawn from controlled quality mild steel wire rods with carbon contents generally less than 0.15%. WWF is manufactured conforming to IS:1566/1982 with long and cross wire spacing varying from 25mm to 400mm.

The wires conform to IS:432-Pt II/1982 which specifies an ultimate tensile strength of 570 N/mm2 and a characteristic strength of 480 N/mm2. Wires used for manufacture of fabric are generally in the range of 2mm to 12mm diameter.

Usage of welded wire fabric offer many significant advantages such as higher characteristics strength, vastly superior bonding behavior, economic detailing with thinner wires at closer spacing and above all enormous savings of time and labour.

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As reinforcement, welded wire fabric can be most effectively used in structural slabs, floor / pavement slabs, precast members, R.C.C. pipes, curved elements, guniting replastering.

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Useful reference charts for weight cross-sectional area of fabric and replacement of reinforcement of Fe250 or Fe415 grade with welded wire fabric grade.

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