"wire rod" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a type of long, thin, cylindrical metal rod. For example, "We need to order more wire rods for our next project."
Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, Germany and Brazil are among the big exporters of wire rod.
Relatively few United States workers are employed making wire rod and steel pipes.
Similar multistand mills are used to form coils of wire rod from bars.
But he said he was disappointed that Mr. Clinton had not imposed higher tariffs on wire rod.
International Steel makes a variety of hot-rolled and cold-rolled steel as well as wire rod and rail products.
The tariffs apply to wire rod, often used to make hangers and nails, as well as steel pipe, used to transport water and gas.
American producers of wire rods say they have been hurt by cheap imports.
Oxide layer in high carbon wire rods are not completely removed by the mechanical descaling process.
The decision today was immediately attacked by companies that buy wire rods to make hundreds of different kinds of steel wire.
Due to the high strain rate and short interpass time at the finishing strain of wire rods mills, mathematical modeling is also an effective method to simulate microstructure-evolution in wire rods rolling.
(a) The term batch means those alkaline cleaning operations which process steel products such as coiled wire, rods, and tubes in discrete batches or bundles.
