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wiredInUSA - October 2011
wiredInUSA - October 2011
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Fort Wayne
Metals Research
Products Corp
of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, has been
recognized
as an ISO 13485
certified contract
manufacturer of
medical device
components.
“This certification gives our customers
additional assurance of our quality system,”
explains John Arnold, director of quality for
Fort Wayne Metals.
“When our custom assembly division
manufactures critical components for
implantable and non-implantable medical
devices from our wire, strands, cable and
composite materials, our customers know that
these components will meet their expectations
for medical device quality.”
Fort Wayne Metals’ custom assembly
division provides a wide range of contract
manufacturing services, including swaging,
welding, crimping, ECG cutting, coating
and laser ablation.
Fort Wayne Metals
adds ISO 13485
thermoplastic that is inherently
lighter and smaller with equal
robustness when compared to
XLPE. In addition, EcoWire Plus
is non-halogenated and
contains no heavy metal
pigments, meeting RoHS and
Waste Electrical and Electronic
Equipment (WEEE) requirements
for the elimination of hazardous
substances and recyclability.
“EcoWire Plus is a great
advancement on our EcoWire
line,” says Tim Howlett, senior
product manager at Alpha Wire.
“Not only does it continue to
offer space-saving design and
weight reduction, its fluid and
chemical resistance is ideal
for demanding factory and
industrial applications. Plus, it
enables significant cost savings
when replacing XLPE wire.”
The initial EcoWire Plus is built
to ISO 6722 standards for thin
and ultra-thin wall requirements
and is RoHS and REACH
compliant. It is available in sizes
from 28 AWG (0.09mm2) to 10
AWG (4.92mm2) with stranded
bare copper conductors and an
operating temperature range
of –40°C to +110°C.
Alpha Wire has launched
an extension of its EcoWire line.
Offering the environmental
benefits and abrasion resistance
characteristics of the original
EcoWire, EcoWire Plus also
resists oils, fuels, solvents,
and other hazardous liquids.
EcoWire Plus meets the fluid
resistance requirements of ISO
6722 for thin-wall and ultra-thin
wall wire, making it an
eco-friendly and cost-effective
replacement for XLPE-insulated
wire.
As with original EcoWire,
EcoWire Plus derives its
advantage from a modified
polyphenylene ether (mPPE)
Hook-up with
EcoWire™ Plus
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