The present invention relates to a process and a device for producing a package of elongated winding material. Here elongated winding material is preferably to be understood as winding material containing metal, in particular copper, such as wire, blank or plastic-coated strands and so on. However, the invention shall also be applicable to winding material such as glass fibre cables, windable in a similar way as the examples mentioned. For simplicity reasons such elongated winding material is referred to as wire in the following paragraphs.