This heats the wire, which can then be pulled beneath the surface of the plastic. [Matthias] likens it to using rebar in concrete. His implementation could be improved just a bit. Getting the wire ...

On January 23, the total rebar inventory this week was 4.479 million mt, up 522,900 mt WoW (up 13.22% MoM, down 45.82% YoY). The total wire rod inventory this week was 976,600 mt, up 10,000 mt WoW (up ...

Advanced Construction Robotics (ACR), which offers to the market its TyBOT rebar tying robot and IronBOT ... using a 16.5 AWG poly coated single snap wire to complete up to 1,100 ties per hour.

travel lanes and 8-ft. shoulders. The deck would consist of 1 million lbs. of rebar and 6,000 cu. yds. of concrete. The structural steel supporting the deck would weigh approximately 4.3 million lbs.