Flat wire, often referred to as ribbon wire, is commonly used in devices designed to reduce catheter profiles or increase available lumen size. Typical applications include safety wires in a catheter guidewire, helical coils in a catheter guidewire and braiding wire. Fort Wayne Metals uses two manufacturing techniques to yield different types of radius edged flat wire: rolled flat wire and drawn flat wire.
Flat wire is availiable through the Fort Wayne Metals Flat wire stock program.