From sand to steel Summit Steel & Wire’s fencing products are world renowned for their durability and market-leading quality. Made in Christchurch, New Zealand using only the highest quality raw materials in their state-of-the-art production facility, Summit has been tried and proven in the harshest conditions and the most testing applications across the globe.
It’s here that the raw iron-ore billet
But what is it that separates their products from the rest?
markets for many decades.
Summit’s rural fencing products are manufactured from the highest quality primary metals in the world.
manufacturer with control of its
| Steel billet being poured.
upstream raw material inputs thereby
In the Newcastle processing plant, the
maintaining strict control over the
billet enters an electric arc furnace to
Summit’s raw materials are sourced from the Whyalla Steelworks in South Australia’s Middleback Ranges, 400km North-West of Adelaide. Here 1.2 million tonnes of iron-ore is
quality of the steel rod that is its key
be stretched into its final wire form.
input to wire manufacturing.
Then it is sent through for its two gas
InfraBuild Wire is a leader in galvanised
wipe layer coatings of zinc/aluminium.
wire production technology operating
The gas wipe coating differs from
a number of galvanising lines with a
other ways of manufacturing, as it
produced every year where it is turned into commercial grade billet feed.
significant portion of their capacity
allows the wire an even spread of the
reserved for production of the corrosion
zinc/aluminium layer. Other methods
The billet is then sent to an InfraBuild processing plant, in the New South Wales beach town of Newcastle.
resistant Zinc/Aluminium coated LifeMax® wires. This is the wire that
can leave an uneven coating which
Summit uses in its fencing products.
for rust to appear sooner.
| Summit Steel & Wire coils in production.
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is turned into the class leading wire used in the manufacture of Summit fencing products. Summit’s key raw material supplier, Infrabuild Wire, has a long and proud year history in wire production — over 100 years — and has been manufacturing high quality fencing products for the Australian and international InfraBuild is a fully integrated steel
promotes patchy wear and the potential
| Red hot billet on the production line.
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