Precious metal-clad wire and ribbon are a cost effective alternative to solid wire while offering greater ductility and formabilty than filled or plated wire. Anomet's clad-wire features a complete metallurgical bond between layers making it the wire of choice for many aerospace, connector, medical device manufacturers when it comes to high reliability and high quality. Anomet's precious metal-clad wire is manufactured using various heat, pressure and reduction techniques. Draw on Anomet's 35 years of clad-wire experience to engineer the perfect solution to your wire challenge.
 
Triple-Clad Metal Wire
 
To meet specific requirements, Anomet's clad-metal wire can include platinum for oxidation-corrosion resistance and biocompatibility, gold for contact resistance, and palladium or silver.  Each alloy can be clad to core materials suchs as copper, niobium, molbdenum, stainless steel, tantalum, and titanium. Click here for a list of other typical metals and alloys.
 

TRIPLE-CLAD METAL WIRE FEATURING

High Strength Alloys

Conductive Alloys

Biocompatible Alloys

Radiopaque Alloys

Corrosion Resistance

Wear Resistance

Contact Resistance

Typical Metals and Alloys

Anomet's Precious Metal Clad Wire can be designed using any combination of the metals and alloys below.  Although these are the typical alloys our customers are using today, you can also specifiy your own.
 

CLADDING

CORE

Gold (Au)

316 LVM

Palladium (Pd)

MP35N (R)

Platinum (Pt)

Molybdenum (Mo)

Platinum Iridium (Pt/Ir)

Niobium (Nb)

Silver (Ag)

Nitinol

Tantalum (Ta)

Tantalum (Ta)

Customer Specified Alloy

Tantalum Tungsten (Ta/W)

 

Titanium (Ti)

 

Customer Specified Alloy

Typical Forms Available
 
Wire

.002" (.05mm) OD - .125" (3.2mm) OD

Ribbon

Up to 1.00" (25mm ) Wide

Cladding Layers*

Bi-Clad (2 Layers), Tri-Clad (3 layers)

Typical Cladding Thickness**

2% or more

 
      *Unlimited Number of Layers Available
      **Custom Thicknesses Available