Engineering strand and cable constructions for medical devices
Monday, September 14, 2026This blog explores how strands and cables balance flexibility, strength, and torque to advance the performance of increasingly smaller medical devices. …
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Braided wire: Balancing size and strength to optimize medical device performance
Thursday, September 3, 2026Braided 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. …
Advanced coatings and laser ablation for high-performance materials in medical devices
Monday, August 24, 2026Medical 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.…
Advancing your medtech innovation with a broad Nitinol portfolio
Wednesday, August 19, 2026As 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. …
Turning metal into medical innovation
Wednesday, August 5, 2026Every 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? …
How Ireland Became a Cornerstone of Fort Wayne Metals' Global Growth
Monday, July 20, 2026The 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. …
Fatigue performance starts within
Wednesday, July 8, 2026Can 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: Thin profile, big impact
Wednesday, June 10, 2026Flat 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.…
Engineering support and solutions for complex applications
Wednesday, May 27, 2026Solving 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. …
Advancing Nitinol from melt to medical device
Thursday, May 7, 2026Recent 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.…