Osaka Coat Rope Promotes World Thinnest Wire for Medical Use

Japanese thinner stainless steel wire rope maker, Osaka Coat Rope tries to develop market for world thinnest stainless steel wire with 9 micrometers diameter especially in medical application. The firm expects medical industry would accept the product when universities and medical organizations recognize the technology and require adjustment for the products.

Osaka Coat Rope developed stainless steel wire with 9 micrometers diameter in 2008. The firm also developed stainless steel wire rope with 81 micrometers diameter, which is strand of 49 wires with each 9 micrometer diameter. The firm tries to commercialize the wire for medical industry.

Stainless steel wire rope users originally need Osaka Coat Rope to make thinner rope with high strength to meet downsizing of office automation equipment. Osaka Coat Rope got thinner wire order for guide wire of tube for liquid food feeding. The firm developed 9-micrometer diameter wire with wire drawing dies makers and other related products makers to realize world first development of wire with less than 10 micrometers of diameter.

Osaka Coat Rope expects the thin wire commercialization would contribute to new medical technology with lower risk.