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 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 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
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
Polyethylene tubes image courtesy of ACE Absolute Custom Extrusions.
Fluid transmission is an essential process in a variety of industrial contexts. For that reason, the importance of fluid transmission equipment to industry can’t be understated. Because of the high importance of this equipment, industry has responded with a number of innovations to improve the fluid transfer process. In the context of tubing, which is one of the most important components in any fluid transfer Continue reading
Polypropylene tube image courtesy of Caplugs.
Engineers make use of a wide variety of materials to construct the products they need. This is as true in the context of plastic tube manufacturing as it is in any other manufacturing context. Plastic tubes are essential utilities in an extensive variety of contexts. Because of the wide variety of contexts in which plastic tubes are used, an equally wide variety of plastic tube compositions and Continue reading
Plastic tubing image courtesy of GSH Industries.
Outside of the context of industry, the word “nylon” is less likely to evoke images of industrial products than it is to evoke women’s apparel. The word “nylon,” like so many other industrial and commercial products, has come to be associated primarily with a single consumer product, at least within the general consumer lexicon. But professionals within industry and chemistry know all about the extremely broad range of contexts in which nylon is used. Take the example Continue reading
The concept of the importance of medical tubing in healthcare contexts is easy to grasp. Imagine the following situation. Suppose you are sitting at work, when suddenly your coworker in the next cubical tips over sideways. You know that he is a diabetic, so you call an ambulance. The ambulance arrives, and the technicians come running in with Continue reading
PTFE is short for polytetrafluoroethylene, but PTFE as actually more commonly known as Teflon. Teflon is one of the many materials used in the construction of tubing. Have you ever wondered why it’s necessary to make tubing out of such a wide variety of materials? What’s the difference between all of these plastics with long names? The reason that there is a need for such a large number of different tube composition materials is the same reason that there are so many different kinds of Continue reading