Contract Services

Fully Integrated Contract Manufacturing

We have the capability and capacity to handle your needs today, and into the future

Better Wire and Press is full service contract manufacturer offering assistance to your engineering and manufacturing.

What Better Wire can do for you:

  • We can take full responsibility for sourcing, design and manufacturing.
  • We can provide components and subassemblies, as well as fully assembled and quality inspected individually packaged products.
  • We can maintain your inventories and drop ship as requested.

Materials we work with:

  • Low Carbon Steel
  • High Carbon Steel
  • Alloy Steel
  • Stainless Steel
  • Galvanized Steel
  • Spring Steel
  • Inconel
  • HRPO (Hot Rolled, Pickled & Oiled)
  • Copper
  • Bronze
  • Brass
  • Aluminum

Better Wire’s Services

Design → Manufacturing

Our project managers will work with your design team to optimize specifications for functionality, cost, appearance, reliability, and durability.

Wire Converting and Straightening

We can work order and maintain your inventories for raw stock and convert and ship on short notice, as needed. Such products include axles, rods and hinge pins with diameters from 0.062″ – 0.438″ and lengths from 0.250″ – 8 feet. We can also produce nails, studs, screw blanks, hooks, and racks.

To finish off these products, we can add barbs, threads, ears, annular fetter rings, and linear/straight knurls. The ends can be cut off, flattened, or chamfered.

Wire Forming

This is one of our specialties. For high volume parts, we have a battery of four-slide and multi-slide machines, which produce tens of millions of die-formed parts each year. For short run production and prototype creation, BWP has both manual and power assisted forming equipment that requires little or no tooling for prototypes low volume orders.

Flat Forming

Tube Bending

Sheet Metal Stamping, Bending, Braking, Punching, Cutting, and Fabrication

Our stamping presses range from 15-150 tons with capabilities including progressive, compound and single-station blanking, drawing and forming dies. We handle thicknesses ranging from 0.005″ – 0.250″ and overall part sizes of up to 24″ wide. All of our machines are suited for short-run and high-volume runs.

Machining, Drilling, Milling, and Turning

Finishing, Powder Coating, Painting, and Iron Phosphating

Powder Coating

Our facility is a state-of-the-art electro-coating system – a perfect complement to many stamping requirements.

Powder coating or e-coat is a superior alternative to liquid paint finishing and provides a better appearance by providing a uniform finish with lasting durability that will stand up to daily wear and tear. Powder coating can also act as a corrosion deterrent by resisting the elements of weather, chemicals and solvents. Powder coating can also provide a unique look to your product and is available in a wide variety of materials, colors, and textures.

Virtually any material can be powder coated: metal stampings, fabrications, wire forms and racks, tubing, as well as some plastic parts.

We can handle three-dimensional shapes ranging in size from .500″ – 36″

Types of coatings include: epoxy, urethane, polyester, and hybrids.

Iron Phosphating

Phosphating is a pre-treatment of metal, which converts a metallic surface to a non-metallic surface by chemically bonding a phosphate coating to the metal.

The phosphate coating forms an integral part of the surface composition. It is used as an undercoating for other organic finishes. It also serves to remove soil, oil, grease, and drawing compounds. It offers superior adhesion when used as a pre-treatment under paint, powder-coating, or rubber molding. We are capable of processing parts up to three feet in length.

Assembling, Packaging, Warehousing, Order Fulfillment, and Drop Shipping

We perform assembly and pack-out functions.

Need Space? We can hold your parts (covered by a blanket purchase order) in our warehouse for release in a day’s notice.

Let us take extra work off of your hands, or let us simplify your job by doing the work of multiple vendors. Give us the work, and you’ll get your product out the door faster!