5 Core Advantages of Tire Wire Drawing Machines: The Most Comprehensive Scrap Tire Recycling Equipment Guide for 2025

In the scrap tire recycling industry chain, the separation of steel wire and rubber is the core link that determines the purity and value of finished products—and the tire wire drawing machine (double-hook wire drawing machine) is the key equipment to achieve efficient and precise separation in this link. Today, we’ll break down this equipment’s functions, applicable scenarios, operating logic, and core advantages in depth, and see how it lays a solid foundation for the production of high-purity rubber powder.

What is a Tire Wire Drawing Machine?

A tire wire drawing machine, also known as a tire steel wire pulling machine, is specialized equipment designed to process “crushed radial tire beads.”

Its core principle is: Using two high-strength alloy hooks, it precisely catches and pulls out the steel wire embedded in the tire bead, achieving complete physical separation of steel wire and rubber—it neither damages the integrity of the steel wire nor leaves excessive steel wire residues in the rubber, providing clean rubber raw materials for the subsequent production of high-purity rubber powder.

Applicable Materials for Tire Wire Drawing Machines

This equipment is not “all-purpose” but designed for specific forms of tire materials, mainly suitable for:

1. Tire beads (tire rings): Tire beads (commonly called “tire rings”) with both sidewalls removed, sourced from scrap radial steel wire tires of passenger cars, trucks, and engineering vehicles;
2. Pre-processed semi-finished products: Semi-finished tire beads initially crushed by a tire shredder.

In short, it is a specialized separation device in the tire recycling process (after rough shredding and before fine processing), focusing on the细分 link of “separating steel wire and rubber in tire beads.”

Operating Process of Tire Wire Drawing Machines: 5 Steps to Achieve Precise Separation of Steel Wire and Rubber

The operation process of a tire wire drawing machine is highly automated; only simple loading is required to complete the full-process separation. The specific steps are as follows:

1. Loading: The operator places the tire bead on the equipment’s feeding rack;
2. Clamping and Positioning: The equipment automatically activates the clamping device to fix the tire bead in place and prevent displacement during processing;
3. Double-Hook Wire Drawing: Two high-strength AISI 4140 alloy hooks are driven by a hydraulic system (operating pressure: 1500 PSI), cutting into the tire bead from both the inner and outer sides simultaneously to precisely catch the steel wire inside the bead;
4. Forced Pulling: The hooks move outward along the preset path (pulling force up to 20,000 lbs), pulling the entire tire steel wire out of the rubber intact (rather than cutting it);
5. Unloading and Collection: The separated rubber strips automatically fall into the collection hopper, while the pulled-out intact steel wire is collected separately, achieving classified recycling of rubber and steel wire.
6. Core Advantages of Tire Wire Drawing Machines: Why It’s a “Must-Have” for Tire Recycling?

In the tire recycling process, the efficiency and purity of steel wire separation directly affect the quality of subsequent rubber powder. The 4 key features of tire wire drawing machines make them the optimal solution for this link:

1.High Efficiency and Strong Power, Stable Output
The unique double-hook design applies both internal and external forces to the bead simultaneously, with a pulling speed of 10 cycles per minute. A single unit processes approximately 550 lbs per hour, ensuring stable throughput for mass production;
2.Thorough Separation, Enhancing Raw Material Value
The integrity rate of pulled steel wire exceeds 99.8%, and steel wire residue in rubber is ≤0.2%, which greatly improves the purity of subsequent rubber powder (reducing impurities) and thus enhances the downstream application value of the rubber powder;
3.Durable, Low Operation and Maintenance Costs
Core components (such as hooks and clamping devices) are made of AISI 4140 alloy steel and undergo carburizing and quenching treatment (surface hardness: HRC 58-62), featuring strong wear resistance and a trouble-free operation time of over 8,000 hours, reducing equipment maintenance and replacement costs;
4.Automated Operation, Reducing Labor and Costs
Except for the loading link (which requires manual assistance), the rest of the process is fully automated. A single unit only needs 1 operator, reducing labor intensity and labor costs.

Industrial Value of Tire Wire Drawing Machines: The Key Link Between “Recycling” and “High-Value Utilization”

For scrap tire recycling enterprises, the value of tire wire drawing machines goes beyond “separating steel wire”—its existence is the core support for realizing “high-value recycling of full tire resources”:

• For rubber: The high-purity rubber after separation can directly enter subsequent granulation and grinding links to produce 20–120 mesh high-value rubber powder;
• For steel wire: The intact pulled steel wire can be directly reused as “recycled steel wire raw material,” avoiding the recycling difficulties caused by broken or mixed steel wire;
• For enterprises: The equipment’s dust emission concentration is ≤0.03 grains/ft³ (meeting industrial exhaust emission limits), while improving the automation level and finished product quality of the recycling process, helping enterprises achieve higher economic benefits on the basis of environmental compliance.

From “piled-up scrap tire beads” to “clean rubber raw materials + intact recycled steel wire,” the tire wire drawing machine may seem like a “niche link device,” but it is actually a key node for “improving quality and efficiency” in the scrap tire recycling industry chain—it makes the process of “turning waste into treasure” more precise and efficient, and maximizes the value of recycled resources.