Multi-Slide Stampings:  Fabrication Services from Manufacturer Western Wire Products Company

Western Wire Products Company Manufactures OEM, Custom and Specialty Four-Slide Stampings

Does your business need a manufacturing partner for multi-slide stampings or four-slide stampings and other types of wire form fabrications?  If so, we would like to let you know that Western Wire Products Company (call nationwide at 800-325-3770) is a full-service wire forms manufacturer with over 100 years of manufacturing experience in the wire forms business.  We are a leading U.S. wire forms fabrication company and we can assist your company by supplying a wide range of wire forms inventory stock—our product categories include Custom SpringsMechanical FastenersWire FormsWire Handles and Wire Hangers—or complete production services accommodating a wide range of wire diameters and metals/metal grades.

Western Wire Products Co., located in the St. Louis metropolitan area, is a primary manufacturer of industry-standard wire forms, a supplier to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), Maintenance and Repair Operations (MROs), national distribution channels, and a manufacturer for small and mid-sized business as well.  We produce OEM wire forms, specialty wire forms and completely custom wire forms including four-slide stampings.  If your business needs specialty or custom-made wire form products, then be sure to discuss your project with our design, engineering and production personnel.

As a full-service wire forms manufacturer, we can offer a wide range of production capacity.  With over 100 pieces of production machinery, we offer a range of machining options including, as higher volume, cost-effective multi-slide forming and four-slide forming, as well as other primary fabrication services and secondary operations.  We can help your company with designing, engineering and manufacturing custom four slide stampings as well as many other types of wire forms.  Additionally, we offer rapid prototype work and quick turnaround times on custom production lots.

Four-Slide Stampings Production Capacity at Western Wire Products Co.

At our production facility in Fenton, Missouri, Western Wire Products Co. has over 100 pieces of machinery a wide range of production capacity.  We have machinery for CNC-machining, precision machining, and cost-effective multi-slide machining (multi-slide forming) and/or four-slide machining (four-slide forming) of workpieces for production runs.  As a full-service fabricator, we can assist your company with product design and engineering services, rapid prototype work, primary fabrication services including CNC wire bendingCNC wire forming, and blank wire threading, as well as, a wide range of secondary operations and finishing services.  With over 100 pieces of production machinery for your specialty or custom wire forms including wire form multi-slide stampings, we also offer quick turnaround times on custom production lots.

Western Wire Products Co. accommodates a range of wire diameters and metals for wire form multi-slide stampings and four-slide stampings.  Our production options are cost-effective fabrication methods for simple or complex wire form geometries and our multi-slide and four-slide production machinery allow us to offer clients higher production runs that are still precise.

Currently, our general wire forms production capacity allows us to utilize four-slide forming or multi-slide forming machinery on wire meeting the following specifications:

  • Lower volume CNC production runs fabricating wire forms from wire diameters of 0.016” to 0.625” (metric sizing of 0.4 mm to 16 mm)
  • Higher-volume, precision-machined production runs fabricating wire forms from wire diameters 0.028” to 0.562” (metric sizing of 0.75 mm to 14 mm) using four slide forming techniques or multi-slide forming techniques
  • Standard MB Spring Wire
  • Standard Strip Steel Wire to 16 gauge
  • Metric sizing on custom production runs

MB Spring Wire and 16 gauge Strip Steel Wire are our most common materials for these production runs, but we do offer our business clients a wide range of steel grades, Stainless Steel grades, Aluminum and other metals options.

By utilizing our multi-slide and/or four-slide production machinery, we can create standardized, OEM, specialty or custom workpieces including multi-slide stampings that require multiple strikes for more complex components.  We can utilize a variety of tooling dies on our multi-slide machinery to create the desired effect and specified geometry for wire forms, plates, curved or bent stampings, plates with drill holes, straps or similar, multiple geometry multi-slide stampings—see below for specific wire form examples.

Wire Form Stampings:  Types of Stampings and Fabrication Services

In wire forms fabrication including multi-slide stampings, Western Wire Products Co. can comply with a wide range standard specifications and industrial standards.  Please let us know your required specifications and market sector standards.  Also, we can produce stampings meeting general ASME, ASTM, and even more stringent Government, military, and Navy specifications.  We offer businesses a wide range of base materials options, secondary operations including treatments and/or coating options, as well as finishing services.

Some of our inventory stock includes examples of our wire form stamping options including:

Western Wire Products Co. fabricates standardized, OEM, specialty and custom multi-slide stamping used in a variety of market sectors.  We can produce stampings for Aerospace Hardware, agri-business/agricultural usages, the automotive markets (automotive wire forms and mechanical fasteners), for general construction, electronics manufacturing, hardware supply, HVAC manufacturing and repair, medical device manufacturing, general manufacturing and/or industrial applications, MRO supply, the Plumbing & Electrical market, and for other types of businesses.

A few additional examples of the types of multi-slide stampings and four-slide stampings that we produce for our inventory stock includes:

  • FHA Straps (16 gauge or 18 gauge available; additional lengths upon request)
  • Pipe Straps (a.k.a. Snap-on-Straps)
  • One-Hole (T.W.) Straps for thin-wall tubing uses (galvanized steels standard or Copper-coated available)
  • Two-Hole Pipe Straps (galvanized steel standard or Copper-coated available)
  • Stud Guards (1-½” self-nailing; 3”, 5” and 6” lengths standard available, 18 gauge or 16 gauge steels standard to meet construction and electrical code requirements)
  • Stud Plates (8” x 5” plate standard manufacture from 16 gauge steel

Western Wire Products Co. offers a wide range of secondary operations and finishing services for general wire forms fabrication services including for multi-slide stampings.  As part of the production process we will review the secondary operations needed for you stampings.  We provide:  Austempering, bending,chamfering (cutting, preparing drill holes or cuts in stampings for deburring), deburring/vibratory deburring, in-process staking/staking, precision-machining, CNC-machining, applying treatments (e.g. case hardening, heat, neutral air/atmospheric, stress-relieving or vacuum heat treatments), passivation, applying metallic plating or coatings,  applying powder coats, punching, stamping, strip forming,swaging, tapping, threading (secondary), and welding.  Also, we provide finishing services for multi-slide stampings and wire form fabrications as requested.

Request a price quote on specialty or custom multi-slide stampings, or for other types of wire form fabrications to meet your company’s current supply requirements.

Contact Western Wire Products Co. for Inventory Orders and Manufacturing Services

Western Wire Products Co. ships inventory stock wire forms to locations throughout the entire United States.  We provide bulk packaging on inventory and custom wire forms and ship to your preferred location(s).  Location-to-location or LTL shipping, Kan Ban stocking, and “just-in-time” shipping is available for U.S. companies.

We work with business customers worldwide.  Your company may purchase bulk inventory items or we can ship production lots of custom fabrications including multi-slide stampings worldwide excepting specific local customs issues.  We ship wire forms to businesses operating in Canada, in Mexico, in the rest of the Americas, in much of Europe, in Australia, in Japan, and elsewhere in Asia.

Businesses may contact Western Wire Products Co. about stock inventory wire forms purchases, about custom fabrication services, and about producing specialty, OEM or custom multi-slide stampings.  Also, companies may reach us by e-mail at: [email protected]; or call us at 800-325-3770.