Flexinol® actuator wires offer many advantages but at the same time require more care and better understanding to put them into good use. They require the care and understanding of thermodynamics, including heating and cooling both actively and passively, mechanically and aesthetically, as well as concern with low cost and simplicity, manufacturability and repeatability. Many new individuals have difficulty getting to work as hoped without experienced assistance. When they do, their success rate can be surprisingly easy!

Benefits of Flexinol® actuator wires complexity often result in multiple benefits for the products they are used in.

For example, these wires may be used both as a relay and an overheating shut off, using both electrical activation and thermal activation when needed. It may save weight and at the same time prevent erosion, provide movement in tight spaces, simplify design, and cost simultaneously.

These benefits, when used effectively, often provide distinct improvements that give enormous advantages.

Although, we have been in this field for decades, many of our customers prefer their applications remain confidential, particularly when it comes to why and how their product using our wires contribute to the performance and success of their products.

So much so that we find, in such cases, DYNALLOY customers often captured their whole markets significantly better than they initially project or anticipated. Due to legal agreements, confidentially obligations, and ethical consideration, we are not at liberty to publicly disclose these results. We love seeing the impact of our wire through joint collaboration even though we can’t talk about it.

Suffice to say, our wire helped explore the planet Mars, helped a toy company see a market 60x their expectations, and one medical company growing from a small startup expand to be an influential multibillion dollar company, largely due to our customers willingness to collaborate that lead to improvements from battery life optimization and fine-tuning with surprisingly mutual results.