Fort Wayne Metals - Technical Blog

Medical devices often need to navigate tight spaces, deploy predictably, and perform consistently once they're in place. That's a challenge for traditional materials, but Nitinol shape-set parts can help solve it through shape memory. With carefully controlled heat-treatment processes, Nitinol can be trained to retain a predetermined shape, creating high-performance components engineered for precise deployment in demanding applications, including stents, retrieval baskets, surgical clips, suture retrievers, and more. Whether you need a simple bend or a highly complex geometry, our teams are committed to developing shape-set solutions that align with your application requirements.…

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Actuation is all about movement. But what if the most powerful motion solution for your application looked more like a wire than a motor? At Fort Wayne Metals, our Nitinol actuator wire leverages the power of shape memory to deliver reliable, repeatable motion in places where traditional actuation technologies may struggle. Heat it, and it contracts. Let it cool, and it returns to its original state, ready to do it all over again.…

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Fort Wayne Metals is advancing the performance of tungsten wire through cutting-edge processing techniques that significantly improve tensile strength, ductility, and microstructural uniformity. In this summary of our latest white paper, Ross Dillion, Lisa Powell, and Dr. Jeremy Schaffer explore how these innovations enable tungsten to meet the rising demands of aerospace, robotics, and high-stress industrial applications.…

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