Fort Wayne Metals Research Products, LLC manufactures precision wire-based materials that our customers use in medical technologies around the world to improve people’s lives. FORT WAYNE, Ind., June ...

These airless Metl tires are made from nitinol, a shape-memory alloy that ‘stretches like rubber but is strong like titanium.’ Warning: Kickstarter. These airless Metl tires are made from nitinol, a ...

When you’re exploring another planet, the last thing you want to have to deal with is tire damage when AAA is millions of miles away. It’s a concern that prompted NASA to develop an airless titanium ...

NASA’s new wheel technology uses nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy that can stretch far beyond ordinary metal and still return to its original shape. The same material lets engineers build airless ...

The Ohio-based Smart Tire Company has unveiled its shape memory airless bicycle tires called METL, utilizing cutting-edge technology originally developed by NASA. These never-go-flat airless tires are ...

The Ohio-based Smart Tire Company wants to change the bicycle tire game with its new airless bicycle tires. Specifically, the METL bicycle tire uses the NASA-developed shape-memory alloy (SMA) known ...

A U.S. startup by the name Smart Tire Company promises a solution to bikers’ oldest problems: punctured tires. Leveraging NASA technology, the startup hopes to bring the METL tires to market as early ...

When scientists at NASA Glenn Research Center designed a tire for large-scale vehicles that can withstand extreme temperatures, increased radiation and the lack of atmospheric pressure on the Moon, ...

Fort Wayne Metals on Thursday announced it is working with NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to advance shape memory alloy material technology for innovative rover tires that could support the ...