Wire drawing - steel (market for wire drawing - steel)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. This is delivering the service of 'wire drawing steel'. Wire drawing is a process in which wire rods/wires are reduced in diameter by drawing them through cone-shaped openings of a smaller cross section so called dies. The input usually is wire rod of diameters raging from 5.5 to 16 mm obtained from hot rolling mills in form of coils. The service includes materials inputs energy and water consumption infrastructure emissions and waste but it excludes the steel input to be rolled and coating. Wire drawing`s main applications include electrical wiring cables tension-loaded structural components springs paper clips spokes for wheels and stringed musical instruments etc. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.