General Brass Wires

Brass wires with excellent cold forging qualities and free-cutting brass wires with unsurpassed machinability are both available.

Features and applications

Type Features Applications
Brass wires Excellent malleability, cold forging and form rolling characteristics Rivets, small screws, pins, springs and metal screening
Brass wires for spoke nipples Excellent machinability and cold forging Bicycle spoke nipples and hex nuts
Free-cutting brass wires Excellent machinability. In particular, C3620 has very good malleability. Bolts, nuts, small screws, electronic device parts, camera parts
Type Brass wires
Features Excellent malleability, cold forging and form rolling characteristics
Applications Rivets, small screws, pins, springs and metal screening
Type Brass wires for spoke nipples
Features Excellent machinability and cold forging
Applications Bicycle spoke nipples and hex nuts
Type Free-cutting brass wires
Features Excellent machinability. In particular, C3620 has very good malleability.
Applications Bolts, nuts, small screws, electronic device parts, camera parts

Product lineup and model number


Type JIS Standard (H3260) In-house Standard for
general materials
In-house Standard for
low-cadmium products
(less than 75 ppm)
Brass wires C2600W 7B
C2700W 6G
Brass wires for spoke nipples C3501W 4N 4NE
Free-cutting brass wires C3602W 4H ・ 4J 4HE ・ 4JE
C3604W 4K ・ 4S 4KE ・ 5SE

Type Brass wires
JIS Standard (H3260) C2600W
n-house Standard for
general materials
7B
In-house Standard for
low-cadmium products
(less than 75 ppm)
Type Brass wires
JIS Standard (H3260) C2700W
n-house Standard for
general materials
6G
In-house Standard for
low-cadmium products
(less than 75 ppm)
Type Brass wires for spoke nipples
JIS Standard (H3260) C3501W
In-house Standard for
general materials
4N
In-house Standard for
low-cadmium products
(less than 75 ppm)
4NE
Type Free-cutting brass wires
JIS Standard (H3260) C3602W
In-house Standard for
general materials
4H ・ 4J
In-house Standard for
low-cadmium products
(less than 75 ppm)
4HE ・ 4JE
Type Free-cutting brass wires
JIS Standard (H3260) C3604W
In-house Standard for
general materials
4K ・ 4S
In-house Standard for
low-cadmium products
(less than 75 ppm)
4KE ・ 5SE
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