Haynes Wire Company ranks among the world's leading producers of high-quality stainless, nickel, and cobalt alloy wires. It provides manufacturers around the globe with a broad variety of wires, each custom-engineered to the precise tolerance, finish, alloy and physical properties desired, in diameters ranging from 0.225 inch (for such uses as cold heading) to 0.004 inch (roughly as thin as a human hair for use in textiles and eye surgery sutures). Haynes' wire is an essential material in literally hundreds of industries and applications including weaving, braiding, belting, cold heading, wire forming, electrical components, medical instruments, free machining, welding, flame spraying, and many others.