Wytech’s FastLane Online Store features in-stock fine wire & material to ship within 24 hours.
Wytech’s FastLane Online Store features in-stock fine wire & material to ship within 24 hours.
Wytech is a medical device contract manufacturer specializing in centerless grinding of stainless steel and nitinol wire and tubing for PTCA guidewires, neurovascular core wires, and catheter mandrel applications. With nearly 50 years of medical wire grinding expertise, we grind to your exact taper profiles, tolerance specifications, and alloy requirements — from R&D prototype to full production volume. ISO 13485 certified.
We grind 304 and 316 stainless steel, SLT® and SLT® Hyten wire, nitinol (NiTi), 17-4 and 17-7 stainless steel, and specialty medical-grade alloys. In-stock material ships within 24 hours via FastLane. Custom alloy grinding available for advanced surgical and interventional applications.
Wytech specializes in catheter mandrel grinding for complex geometry mandrels used as catheter manufacturing aids — including reflow, bonding, cutting, tipping, welding, and extrusion applications. Combined with our affiliate Mountain Manufacturing Technologies, Wytech is your single-source contract manufacturer for R&D mandrels through production volume.
Our engineers provide design for manufacturing (DFM) feedback on every FastTrack project, and customers can embed on-site for real-time design iterations. PTFE coating available via preferred partner Applied Plastics for lubricious surface finishes.
Wytech’s centerless grinding expertise covers the full range of medical guidewire and core wire applications — from PTCA guidewire core wires requiring precise multi-taper stiffness transitions to neurovascular wire profiles demanding sub-millimeter dimensional accuracy. We work in stainless steel (304, 316, SLT®, Hyten) and nitinol, with dedicated development equipment for rapid prototyping via FastTrack and production-scale centerless grinding for volume programs.
Wytech offers a variety of precision grinding configurations:
Wytech’s proprietary 5-axis needle grinding systems produce multi-profile point ground tips not achievable on conventional equipment — including Menghini features, scalloped tubes, and varying grind angles for biopsy and aspirator needle sets. Tip geometries include bias grinds, lancet points, blunt ends, bevels, trocars, diamond points, and trephine. Ideal for hypodermic stainless-steel tubing applications across laparoscopic, biopsy, and minimally invasive surgical devices.
Hypotube skiving is a precision grinding process that removes material from the outer surface of stainless steel hypotubes to create controlled flexibility transitions — allowing a guidewire or catheter assembly to transition smoothly from rigid proximal sections to flexible distal sections without kinking or compromising tube integrity. Wytech produces skiving features across a range of hypotube ODs, with grind profiles tailored to your specific pushability and trackability requirements. Skiving is also used to produce flat grinds, D-shaped lumens, and access windows in tubing for EP and structural heart catheter applications.
Fine wire, mandrels, and coated wire – on the shelf, ready to ship today. Stainless steel, nitinol, SLT® hyten, PTFE, & parylene coated, 17-4, 17-7 & more.
Diameters: 0.003″ – 0.375″ · half sizes available · custom end cuts
Submit your drawing – dedicated grinding cell and expert engineers produce your custom prototype. DFM feedback included. On-site collaboration available.
Mandrels · Core Wires · Delivery Wires
Volume production of precision-ground wire and metal tubing components. Multi-taper, stepped, paddle, skive profiles. Stainless steel, nitinol, and specialty alloys.
Mandrels · Core Wires · Delivery Wires
Whether you’re scaling from a FastTrack prototype or bringing a new production program to Wytech, our engineering team will work with you on tolerances, alloy selection, profile complexity, and volume capacity. Nearly 50 years of precision grinding expertise — applied to your device.
