Choosing the right material is one of the most important decisions in interventional devices, including guidewires and catheters, impacting everything from flexibility and torque response to overall performance. This webinar provides practical insights into the properties, trade-offs, and emerging technologies shaping the next generation of interventional medical devices. …
This blog explores how strands and cables balance flexibility, strength, and torque to advance the performance of increasingly smaller medical devices. …
Braided wire is the structural foundation of many catheter, sheath, and robotic device designs, but maximizing performance requires careful trade-offs. This technical blog, based on a recent webinar, explores how wire condition, tensile properties, flat versus round geometries, spooling practices, and surface finishes influence the capabilities of your devices. …
Medical device conductors often need to perform multiple functions within a single assembly. One section may need to transmit electrical signals, another must move smoothly through a lumen, and another may require direct contact with tissue. Advanced coating technologies help meet these competing demands by providing electrical insulation, reducing friction, improving durability, or combining several benefits in the same device. Materials such as ETFE, PFA, FEP, PTFE, and polyimide each offer unique performance characteristics that allow engineers to balance dielectric strength, flexibility, lubricity, abrasion resistance, and size constraints based on application requirements.…
As Nitinol possibilities continue to expand, will your material options expand with them? For more than 30 years, Fort Wayne Metals has continually expanded our capabilities to offer one of the industry’s most comprehensive portfolios of Nitinol solutions to the medical device market. …
Every breakthrough metal, from ancient bronze to today's most advanced medical alloys, begins with the same fundamental question: how do you control chemistry, heat, and process to achieve a desired outcome? …
The increasing demand for Fort Wayne Metals products throughout the United States in the 1990s made it clear that we needed to expand operations across the Atlantic. At that time, Europe was (and still is) one of the fastest-growing hubs for medical device innovation, and our customers were already there, building, scaling, and expecting partners who could keep up. …
Can two high-performance alloys that meet the same ASTM standards perform differently? The answer is a resounding “Yes!” Read further to see a firsthand comparison between two of our signature high-performance alloys. …
Flat wire gives engineers another way to balance strength, flexibility, profile, and precision in demanding applications. We work closely with customers to develop flat wire solutions tailored to their exact performance needs across medical markets.…
Solving complex material and construction challenges is what drives us. From concept to commercialization or anywhere in between, it’s critical to have a supply partner to help you select the right materials in the right form with optimal mechanical properties to meet your device requirements. …