Category Archives: Plastic Tubing

Plastic Tubing in the Maple Syrup Business

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Plastic tubing is one of those industrial products that finds uses in all kinds of contexts. You can find plastic tubing in use in healthcare contexts, in heavy industrial contexts such as chemical processing, in homes and in places of business as plumbing tubing and in a wide variety of other applications. One novel use of plastic tubing is in the production of maple syrup. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the process of maple syrup production, it involves Continue reading →

Plastic Tubing Manufacturers – Methods and Markets

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Plastic tubing manufacturers have a few methods at their disposal for creating the products that their clients need. The most common method is extrusion. Plastic extrusion is a fairly simple process that can be used to create plastic tubing out of many different kinds of materials at relatively low cost and in large volumes. It involves short lead times, can be automated to a reasonable degree and it involves very little waste of plastic materials, which makes it attractive from a Continue reading →

Rigid Plastic Tubing vs Flexible Plastic Tubing

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In our last post, we discussed why flexible plastic tubing is in such high demand in medical contexts. The main point was this: human beings move around a lot, and if a human being has to be connected to a tube, that tube had better not inhibit that motion or be susceptible to damage because of it. Flexible tubing is an excellent choice when there is a need for tubing that connects two things that are likely to move relative to each other. However, there are many situations in which Continue reading →

Flexible Plastic Tubing in Healthcare Contexts

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I’ve been a patient in a hospital only once, and it’s an experience I hope I won’t have to repeat any time soon. That said, it was a positive experience. I went there to get a procedure and emerged healthier. And I also learned a lot about the state of modern medicine, and my suspicions about having been lied to by medical dramas were confirmed – hospitals are not staffed entirely with Continue reading →

Extruded Plastic Tubing – One of the Most Common Plastic Tubing Varieties

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Most plastic tubing varieties are produced through a process called extrusion. While there are exceptions, extrusion is often the cheapest, most efficient and most intuitive plastic tube fabrication process. This is true for a number of reasons. Plastic extruders are capable of producing lots of plastic tubing products with high dimensional consistency and quality. They can produce plastic tubing at relatively low cost, and they require comparatively low levels of human supervision in order to operate. They can be used to produce tubing of all kinds of different plastic compositions, and they can be used for the creation of Continue reading →

Plastic Tubing is Important to Our Economy

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Freelin Wade Plastic Tubing

Plastic tubing image courtesy of Freelin Wade.

You might not think of plastic tubing as the most likely candidate for the title of “Most Important Industrial Product.” After all, plastic tubes seem simple. There doesn’t seem to be much to them, and compared to other industrial products, such as chemicals or electronic equipment or oil, maybe plastic tubes aren’t especially Continue reading →

PVC Tubing: Common for a Reason

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New Age Industries PVC Tubing

PVC tubing image courtesy of New Age Industries.

If you’ve been in a restroom today, you’ve probably been in close proximity to PVC tubing. If you’ve been in a basement, it’s likely that you were near PVC tubing running to and from nearby appliances. PVC tubing is among the most commonly used and therefore most recognizable plastic tubing varieties. Most people identify the words “PVC tubing” with the thick, off-white tubes they’ve seen in their homes or Continue reading →

Clear Plastic Tubing is Benficial

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Genplex Clear Plastic Tubing

Clear plastic tubing image courtesy of Genplex.

There are many different kinds of clear plastic tubing. Every kind of clear plastic tubing is characterized by a few different factors. The first factor is chemical composition. Clear plastic tubing can be composed of a number of materials, but two of the most common materials are clear acrylic and clear PVC. Both of these materials are characterized by their optical clarity as well as by favorable Continue reading →

Plastic Pipe Connects our Infrastructure

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Argos Plastic Pipe

Plastic pipe image courtesy of Argos.

Take a look around you, wherever you may be sitting at the moment. If you’re indoors, look up. If you’re in a home or office building, there’s a good change that plastic pipes are running through the ceiling above you. You may even be able to see them if you’re in an unfinished basement, a warehouse or some other unfinished building. If you happen to be outdoors, look down. If you’re standing on or near a Continue reading →

Square Plastic Tubing – Just as Important as Cylindrical Tubing

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Polytec Plastics Polygonal Plastic Tubing

Non-cylindrical plastic tubing image courtesy of Polytec Plastics, Inc.

“Square plastic tubing” might sound like a contradiction in terms. After all, when we think of tubing, we usually think of cylindrical, hollow rods through which materials are passed. But there are a lot of situations in which cylindrical tubes are not appropriate, and in those situations, plastic tubing with non-cylindrical cross-sections can be used instead. If you look around you, you might even see a piece of square Continue reading →