Wire is commonly formed by drawing the metal through a hole in a die or draw plate. Wire gauges come in various standard sizes, as expressed in terms of a gauge number. The term wire is also used more loosely to refer to a bundle of such strands, as in "multistranded wire", which is more correctly termed a wire rope in mechanics, or a cable in electricity.

Wire comes in solid core, stranded, or braided forms. Although usually circular in cross-section, wire can be made in square, hexagonal, flattened rectangular, or other cross-sections, either for decorative purposes, or for technical purposes such as high-efficiency voice coils in loudspeakers. Edge-wound coil springs, such as the Slinky toy, are made of special flattened wire.

SaTraD® supply steel wire rod in any carbon,alloy or stainless grade,and in various qualities.

These qualities include Industrial Quality (IQ) wire rod, Special Quality (SQ) wire rod, Cold Heading Quality (CHQ) wire rod, and High Carbon Quality (HCQ) wire rod. Our customers can also choose from a range of wire rod processing (annealing, drawing, straighten and cut), and coatings (pickle & lime, phos & lube, and polymer).