Metallising wire
1080 Metallising Wire
The working grade for film and paper metallising, where deposition rate matters more than the last hundredth of purity.
Specifications
- Grade
- 1080
- Aluminium purity
- 99.80 % min
- Diameter
- 1.50 mm and above
- Tensile strength
- 16–18 kg/mm²
- Elongation
- above 1 %
- Packing
- Jointless spools packed in corrugated boxes, shipped by road or sea
Supplied on the Swiftmet spool programme View spool dimensions
Applications
- BOPP and polyester film metallising
- Paper and board metallising for packaging
- Flexible packaging laminates
Drawn from 99.80 % aluminium coil, each of which arrives with its own chemical composition certificate. The diameter is gauged continuously during drawing rather than sampled afterwards, because a wire that runs thin for twenty metres will not show up in an end-of-batch check but will show up as a thin patch on the customer's film.
Supplied layer-wound and jointless on any spool in the programme. Jointless is the specification that matters on an automatic metalliser: a splice is where the run stops, and stopping a metalliser costs more than the spool.