Wire drawing blocks, since 1952.
The industry we were founded to serve. Wire drawing block hardsurfacing, wire drawing rings, and the Restore & Grind cycle — refined every year since 1952.
The wire drawing block is the part we have refined the process on the longest.
Parkway-Kew was founded in 1952 to rebuild worn wire drawing blocks. The first big order was 100 26-inch Vaughn blocks for CF&I in Roebling, New Jersey. Every capability the shop has developed since — submerged-arc hardsurfacing in the 1950s, metallizing in the 1980s, HVOF coating in 1989, the proprietary Restore & Grind repair cycle — traces back to that original problem.
Today the wire & cable customers are around the world. The processes are more refined, the alloys are more specialised, and the Restore & Grind cycle lets a coated block stay in service for years. But the part is the same, the wear duty is the same, and the engineering standard is the same.
- Wire drawing block hardsurfacing (submerged-arc, fuse, HVOF)
- Restore & Grind cycle — 5 to 7 repairs before recoat
- Manufactured wire drawing rings
- Serving wire & cable manufacturers worldwide
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Drawings, dimensions, or just a description. Our engineering team will recommend the alloy and process that fit the wear pattern.
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