Precision Grinding

Wytech's precision grinding capabilities include:

  • Micro Grinding
  • Profile Grinding
  • Taper Grinding
  • Step Grinding
  • Flat Grinding
Intricate profile grinds for PTCA Guidewires and Neuro Interventional Guidewires are produced from start to finished part. Plunge grinding for special mandrels. Flat grinds for "D", "C" and Crescent Shaped Lumen.

Some uses include:

  • Bonding Mandrels
  • Biopsy Needle Stylets
  • Neuro Interventional Guidewires
  • Plastics Grinding
  • PTCA Guidewire Cores
  • Sizing Mandrels
  • Stylets
In addition to the standard centerless grinding functions, Wytech offers CAM grinding services. CAM grinding provides a seamless combination of centerless and OD grinding and provides the ability to shape flats, threads, bumps, arcs, hexes, balls, ellipses, and concave or convex radii with linear tolerances as precise as ± .002".

The CAM machine also enables Wytech to generate grinds of unlimited length and is especially well suited for grinding Nitinol.

In-house annealing and stress-relieving ovens provide flexibility in processing.