Method of producing a braid comprising a plurality of wires

2The invention relates to a method for the production of a strand of several wires, consisting of an electrically conductive material, which are hard drawn to a final diameter in at least a single or multiblock wire-drawing machine or drawing apparatus in a last drawing step before the stranding, so that in each case the wire or wires have a tensile strength of at least 300N/mm, and that subsequently the hard drawn wires or a mixture of hard drawn wires and soft-annealed wires are stranded into a strand in a stranding machine, without a subsequent annealing process, as well as a strand which is produced according to the present method.