The conventional processes for plating aluminum onto steel wires requires use of a variety of reducing fluxes and addition of secondary elements as such silicon. The amount of aluminum plated by conventional hot dipping processes was extremely small, about 100 to 130g/m². The authors have studied the method for producing pure aluminum plated steel wires based on the principle of high-speed hot dipping process developed by the Battelle Geneva Research Centre, and succeeded in obtaining steel wires plated with 500-800g/m² pure aluminum, posessing excellent workability.

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