We’ve been producing high-quality spring wire at Bekaert for decades. We focus on building close partnerships with our customers, driven by continuous collaboration and innovation. This makes Bekaert the ideal long-term partner for all of your medical spring wire needs for drug delivery, inhaler, diagnostics and dispenser systems.
Springs have become a vital part of medical devices – from those used by medical professionals in hospitals – to those used by an increasing number of patients who self-administer medications at home using manual, automatic, wearable or hidden-needle drug delivery systems.
Strength, accuracy, fatigue properties, repeatability and anti-corrosion characteristics are what medical device designers, manufacturers and spring makers demand from medical spring wire. We approach the continuous development of our spring wire from this starting point.
For many years, stainless steel springs were the go-to solution for high-reliability and high-precision medical device construction. Thanks to our broad product line the advanced coating solutions now available, Bekaert can provide to medical device designers even higher overall performance levels than stainless steel springs in many specific and demanding applications.
Intuitive interaction, once the sole concern of trained care givers, is now an evermore vital factor in the design of medical devices used by patients. This places greater demands on the efficacy of spring wire solutions used in accuracy-critical and smaller, more convenient, medical devices.
Medical springs are a vital component in securing convenience, accurate dose delivery and comfort for both patients and care professionals alike. The range of potential applications for medical springs is growing as self-administration of medication with auto-injector devices increases and the use of large molecule biologics increases the demand for higher-force spring wire solutions.
Applications include:
Our medical spring wires deliver high tensile strength, enabling springs with the compression forces required for both high- and low-viscosity drug injection devices, coupled with the fatigue-resistance required for refillable dispensing solutions. Medical spring wire products from Bekaert can be adapted to suit specific and demanding use-cases, while ensuring a smooth and efficient process for spring production. Benefits include:
