60 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN STAINLESS STEEL WIRE

Stainless Steel, a modern material in view of its attractive combination of mechanical and corrosion resistance properties, has found a large array of usages in the Automobile Industry, as to be expected in spite of its cost higher than regular steels. Stainless steel wire is used in very diverse applications, notably as follows:

• Automobile fasteners: fasteners is a generic wording for a range of parts used to link or fasten in place several components of a vehicle: this covers bolts, nuts, washers and rivets usual

It is no surprise that Stainless Steel, a modern material with an attractive combination of mechanical and corrosion resistance properties, would indeed find many usages in Aeronautics/Aerospace domains.

Stainless steel in wire form is understandably on the forefront of these usages, in view of the weight savings considerations, in spite of the increasing competition from the more expensive Titanium alloys. Thus stainless steel wire, wire rope and wire mesh are found in many critical parts of aircrafts and primarily in the areas of fasteners (via cold heading) and a

Stainless steel wires are increasingly present in medical applications which rely on their attractive combination of corrosion resistance, durability and mechanical properties.

The main domains of applications are primarily the increasingly sophisticated field of “medical devices” used in diagnosis, investigations and innovative surgical techniques such as laparoscopy, and the more traditional areas of implants as well as surgical miscellaneous parts.

Stainless steel wire can be in various presentations (round, flat or shaped wire) and forms (mesh, braided, straighten