The bronze wire products market ranges from woven mesh, screens and cloth to twisted rope and silicon bronze welding wire. Bronze is strong, attractive and an excellent electrical conductor, making it the perfect wire material for both delicate, finely milled applications and heavy duty industrial applications.

Along with Chile and Indonesia, the United States is one of the top three international producers of copper, which is used to make bronze and all bronze wire products.

1. Find woven products such as bronze wire mesh, bronze screen wire and bronze wire cloth manufacturers.

2. Get bronze wire rope based on strength and durability to fill your clients' needs.

3. Include specialty bronze wire products in your supply line.

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The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Buy woven bronze wire mesh, screen and cloth from versatile manufacturers

There are three standard grades of woven wire fabric: market, mill and tensile bolting cloth. The grades are determined by the metal composition and diameter of the wire and mesh count per square inch. Market grade is the most common; mill grade uses thinner wire and has more open mesh squares; and tensile bolting cloth uses the lightest wire and has the greatest number of open mesh areas. Wire wovens are used in industrial straining, filtering, sizing and as fire screen and grill woven mesh.

I recommend: Call Argus Steel for custom fabrication of wire fabric and cloth in square and diamond configuration for partitions, mesh railings, fill panels and window guards. Argus is capable of weaving the full range of fine to heavy product and maintains a large inventory ready for immediate, same day shipping. Look to the Cambridge Wire Cloth Company for fast and efficient custom tooling of wire wovens. Cambridge maintains a large standard inventory, but it also maintains weaving, fabricating and welding for custom runs tailored to any specification down to mesh with a 5 micron retention. Keep the wide range of stock inventory maintained by Unique Wire Weaving Co., Inc. in mind for your phosphor bronze wire woven needs. Unique Wire Weaving requires direct order minimums of $100 and ships quickly.

Find bronze wire manufacturers of strong, durable and safe wire rope

Buy bronze wires milled into the finest cable for intricate electrical functions or twisted into the strongest rope for work with cranes and other heavy duty hoists. Your clients' needs are varied, so buy bronze wire from manufacturers of phosphor bronze wire who can meet those needs with quality product and proven experience.

I recommend: Get the smallest and finest from 25-year manufacturing veteran Jersey Strand & Cable Inc. Jersey Strand & Cable stocks and custom designs cable in small, miniature and micro-miniature wire, up to 1/8 inch finished diameter. Buy the heaviest and strongest phosphor bronze wire rope from Wire Rope Corporation of America, one of the largest wire rope manufacturers in the world, and the only one that's QPL qualified, API certified and ISO 9001:2000 registered.

Consider these specialty bronze wire products

Bronze spring wires and silicon bronze wires require special milling processes. Choose bronze wire suppliers who know their product and can match their inventory with your needs.

I recommend: United Wire Co., Inc. is ISO 9001:2000 certified and manufactures .500 maximum width spring wire as well as wire for the electronics, optical and aerospace industries. Another spring wire manufacturer is Illini Wire Mill, Inc. who boasts quick turnaround times on special orders. Get same day shipping on silicon bronze mig wire from MSC Industrial Supply. MSC maintains a stock of .035 inch and .045 inch diameter wires. National Bronze and Metals, Inc. is another distributor of silicon bronze mig welding wire you can count on for quick shipping of quality product.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  The bronze in bronze wire reacts with aluminum and causes corrosion, making the two metals impossible to use together.