Microforming

Our capability to produce parts with complex shapes and tight tolerances using precision stamping, coiling, and microforming is supported by our deep process knowledge and in-house precision tooling center. Backed by decades of experience, our engineers are adept at manufacturing small, complex parts and tooling with precision tolerances at high volumes.

Winding services go hand-in-hand with coiling, offering additional features and functionalities with:

• Traditional (over-mandrel)
• Deflection or point (no mandrel)
• Round wire
• Flat wire
• Coated wire

Microforming is a highly versatile manufacturing capability used for:

• Catheter forming tools
• Manufacturing and assembly tools
• Minimally invasive surgical devices

We perform microforming on a variety of materials, including, but not limited to:

• Stainless steel
• Nitinol
• Titanium

• Cut to length
• Forming and stamping
• Single, multiple, or helical forms
• Ground, EDM, or machined features
• Radiused, conical, or tapered
• Trocar, chamfer, or angle grind
• Flattened, coined, or stamped
• Machined or threaded
• Ball welded

• Finished critical feature tolerances to ±0.008 mm (±0.0003 in) at 1.5 Cpk.
• Position to 0.025 mm (0.001 in)
• Shape to ±0.006 mm (±0.0002 in)
• Flatness to 0.01 mm (0.0004 in)

Innovators developing groundbreaking medical devices rely on our microforming capabilities to create new technologies that advance treatment options and improve patient lives. Market applications for components and implants produced with our microforming processes include, but are not limited to:

• Neurovascular
• Ophthalmic
• Minimally invasive surgery
• Neuromodulation
• Surgical Robotics
• Sports medicine