Champagne Cork Wire - - Hot Dipped Galvanized Low Carbon Steel Wire for Muselet and Other Holders of Tightening Capsules

Everbright manufactures and supplies Champagne Cork Wire made of Galvanized, painted or coated steel wire, at 0.95 and 1.00 mm diameter. Galvanized champagne cork wire is a galvanized low carbon steel wire for manufacturing holders used for tightening capsules on champagne bottles, and similar containers. Champagne Cork Wire is supplied in a ringed cage style painted in silver, copper, gold or black color to suit with the colors of the corks or capsules.

Why Champagne Needs a Steel Wire Cage for Corks?

Some people may wonder why a steel wire cage should be put outside the bottle mouth with a wooden cork. In fact, the cork was originally fixed with hemp rope, but it is easy to loosen after a long time, and the hemp rope is likely to be eaten by rats. The champagne contains a large amount of carbon dioxide, which will generate great pressure on the mouth of the bottle. The wooden plug / corks cannot withstand, so the steel wire cage is used over the cork of the champagne bottle to fix the wooden corks and to prevent the cork from popping out under the pressure of the contents.

Hence, the champagne lid is composed of a metal lid, a wooden stopper and a steel wire cage, which is different from other wine bottle lids.

This kind of special wine bottle cap composed of metal cap and steel wire cage for champagne is called Metal Wire Basket, Wire Hoods, Envelope, or Muselet.

Our Champagne Cork Wire has following advantages:
Uniform coating,
Bright shine,
Can be easily formed on high-speed machines,
Excellent tensile strength wire for easy and firm holding capability.

Champagne Cork Wire We Deliver

Hot Dipped Galvanized Champagne Cork Wire
Material: iron wire, C9D or Q195, soft quality
Surface: Hot dipped galvanized – zinc coating 35 g/m² - with clean and shiny surface
Tensile strength: 320-450 N/mm² aim 350-370 N/mm²
Packaging: 330 – 400 kg rings – on welded mesh stand – for rings on one pallet
Wire diameter:1,00 alternative 0,95 mm
Tolerence. +/- 0,02 mm
Style: Wire cage, with top round wire, bottom wire deformed into mushroom shape, four twisted rings feet
Loading: FCL – 22-24 tons 

Detail Specification: 

Wire:
Nominal wire diameter 0,95 mm / 1,00 mm
Surface coating galvanized

Raw Material:
Wire rod : Chemical composition in accordance with ISO 16120-2 C9D
Zinc slabs for galvanizing: Minimum 99:5 % of pure zinc

Wire Properties:
Nominal diameter: 1,00 mm
Tolerance: +/- 0,02 mm
Tensile Strength: 350 - 370 N/mm2
Elongation: min. 23 %
Mass of zinc coating min.: 35 g/m2

Deformability (twist test) : min. 55 rotations
A double parallel runnig wire, with a length of 210mm, is twisted by means of a hook a 4mm diameter until break.

Zinc coating for Champagne Cork Wire:
Surface condition: Smooth and even surface, neither zinc knobs or zinc thickening
Adhesion of zinc coating : After wrapping around ist own diameter, the zinc layer may not show any cracks or flakes.

Our cork wire or muselet is tested to meet quality standard of following test methods:
Tensile strength and elongation: Determination in accordance with ISO 6892 or EN 10 002-1
Mass of zinc coating: Determination in accordance with ISO 7989
Adhesion: Determination in accordance with ISO 7802