Acme Wire Offers Precision Wire Components in DFARS-Compliant Materials

Acme Wire Products Company, Inc. announces its ability to incorporate DFARS-compliant specialty metals in a wide variety of custom designed and manufactured wire components.

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Quote startAcme Wire has certifications on hand for all DFARS material, attesting to the location where their specialty metals were melted.Quote end

Mystic, CT (PRWEB) November 18, 2009

Acme Wire Products Company, Inc. announces its ability to incorporate DFARS-compliant specialty metals in a wide variety of custom designed and manufactured wire components.

The materials are compliant with regulation 252.225.7014 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement, which requires that certain specialty metals used in products purchased under Department of Defense contracts be melted in the United States are in one of several “qualifying countries.”

The specialty metals detailed in DFARS 252.225.7014 include:

1. Metal alloys consisting of Nickel, Iron-Nickel, and Cobalt base alloys containing a total of other alloying metals except Iron in excess of ten percent, or Titanium and titanium alloys or zirconium and zirconium base alloys.

2. Steel with a maximum alloy content exceeding one or more of the following limits. Manganese, 1.65%, Silicon, 0.60%, or Copper, 0.60%, or containing more than 0.25% of any of the following elements: Aluminum, Chromium, Cobalt, Columbium, Molybdenum, Nickel, Titanium, Tungsten, or Vanadium.

The listed qualifying countries include: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Northern Ireland.

“The origins of the DFARS specialty metals provision dates back to the Berry Amendment, which sought to secure a safe, domestic source for certain materials deemed of strategic importance to the U.S. military,” explains Acme Wire President Mary Fitzgerald.

Acme Wire has certifications on hand for all DFARS material, attesting to the location where their specialty metals were melted. Acme also takes care to keep its specialty metals segregated from other materials to prevent any confusion or cross-contamination, Fitzgerald said.

Founded in 1970, Acme Wire is a family-run business, providing sturdy, lightweight parts manufactured to exacting, repeatable tolerances. Specializing in custom designed and contract-manufactured engineered steel, stainless steel wire and metal products, Acme Wire can be found online at http://www.acmewire.com

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