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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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. …

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Recent advances in melting technology, particularly the addition of plasma arc melting (PAM) alongside traditional vacuum arc remelting (VAR), are producing a new generation of Nitinol.…

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Fort Wayne Metals introduces a new class of Nitinol-based super-elastic alloys with gigapascal-level strength and cryogenic durability. Discover how these advanced materials are enabling thinner, stronger medical devices and unlocking possibilities for space exploration.…

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