Wire drawing - steel (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for wire drawing, steel. The reference product is wire drawing, steel. 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 reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/3458/documentation.