Precious Metal Medical Wire, Custom Platinum Fabrication, & Implantable Alloys

Pure platinum and platinum alloy wire for medical devices, neurovascular interventional procedures, and angioplasty, including radiopaque & biocompatible alloys as guide wire (round & flat) and for coiling.

The demand for pure platinum or alloy wires for medical devices is driven by their unique metallurgical properties. These metals and alloys have decades of history as important components of life-saving medical devices.

The medical device industry has a unique set of precious metal medical wire requirements, driven by the market’s need for radiopaque and biocompatible platinum alloys. These implantable alloys are used in angioplasty devices, guide wires, and other implantable devices or sensors for therapeutic areas ranging from cardiovascular to neurological and surgical applications.

Sigmund Cohn Corp.’s unique manufacturing capabilities allow us to create medical wire in our own custom platinum fabrication factory. This platinum wire is available in many forms and alloys; for example, it can be fabricated into round or flat forms that can be used for coiling. We can also custom fabricate platinum into sheets or tubes for other medical devices.

Our products include

Pure platinum, commercial grade (99.95%)
Platinum alloyed with iridium
Platinum alloyed with tungsten
Platinum alloyed with nickel
Platinum alloyed with rhodium
Platinum alloyed with ruthenium

Many more metals, combinations, and forms exist. Download our spec sheets Below to learn about our full product offering.

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History

At the earliest days of an infant bioelectronics industry there were a couple of interesting events that changed the trajectory of the industry. One of the first was the invention of the implantable cardiac pacemaker device, credited to Wilson Greatbatch. Sigmund Cohn Corp. was right there at that time as a supplier of implantable platinum alloys.

Wilson's Story

Another major force was the space race-based explosion in medical device technology in and around NASA and the National Labs. Sigmund Cohn Corp. was a key supplier to these new medical industry devices and sensors.

Today, Sigmund Cohn Corp. experts work hand-in-hand with our customer’s engineers and product development teams on the next generation of high tech precious metal products for medical devices.