Copper-coated solid wire mostly used with semiautomatic and automatic procedures, for hard-facing wheels, rolling mill rollers tracks, sliding rollers, screws, mill crushing jaws and mill wheels, where excellent resistance to abrasion is required especially when accompanied by shocks, and blows, and for hard-facing wearing components such as excavation buckets and teeth and surfaces subject to abrasion and heavy loads. A cushion layer deposited with basiccoated electrode or basic flux cored wire is essential only with hard-to-weld steels. To be used under the shield of Ar+CO2.