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. …
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.…
Fort Wayne Metals is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of materials science, delivering precision-engineered solutions for the world’s most demanding applications. …
New research coauthored by Fort Wayne Metals and MED Institute offers a comprehensive analysis of magnetic susceptibility in 45 common medical device metals. Learn how these findings can support safer, more MR-compatible device designs.…
Fort Wayne Metals is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of materials science, delivering precision-engineered solutions for the world’s most demanding applications. …
Superelastic conductor material with enhanced fatigue durability for implantable lead service.…
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.…
Fort Wayne Metals introduces a groundbreaking CoNiCr-Nitinol composite wire engineered for advanced guidewire applications. Combining the strength of CoNiCr with the superelasticity of Nitinol, this joint-free innovation offers enhanced torque control, kink resistance, and a seamless stiffness-to-flexibility transition—setting a new standard for precision and reliability in interventional procedures.…