There are many applications for which the use of clear tubing might be required. Many banks feature drive-through services, and the transportation of money, checks and receipts between vehicles and indoor bank tellers requires the use of vacuum tubes and a mobile container. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
NewAge® Industries, Inc.
Southampton, PA | 800-506-3924A leading manufacturer and fabricator of flexible plastic tubing and hose, we produce and stock large quantities of a wide variety of materials, including PVC, polyurethane, silicone, nylon and many more.
GSH Industries, Inc.
Cleveland, OH | 440-238-3009GSH is a manufacturer of plastic, extruded, nylon, polycarbonate and polyethylene tubing. We serve a variety of industries with our products, including automotive, consumer, electrical and marine.
Absolute Custom Extrusions, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI | 414-332-8133At Absolute Custom Extrusions, we specialize in plastic tubing, while providing custom plastic extrusions and profiles. Products include distributor tubes, hot or cold water tubes, automotive tubing, medical tubing, shipping tubes and golf club tubes.
Petro Extrusion Technologies, Inc.
Middlesex, NJ | 800-229-3338Petro specializes in plastic tubing, offering custom extruded tubing, coiling & angle cutting. Our clear & color plastic tubing is available in Polycarbonate, Acrylic & PE-PP-Nylon.
Polytec Plastics, Inc.
St. Charles, IL | 630-584-8282If you are in search of quality plastic tubing then you have found the company that can meet your needs. We have a wide variety of stock plastic tubing items and our solutions are very reliable.
International Polymer Engineering
Tempe, AZ | 877-410-3265IPE manufactures ePTFE tubes, rods, and sheets in a wide range of sizes and a wide variety of material porosities to fit any customer requirements. We also utilize our 20 years of experience with custom extrusion, project analysis, creativity, and current manufacturing practices to provide the best possible solution to your design challenges. We are committed to understanding your application and will tailor a development program to your time frame, costs, and project needs.
Clear Plastic Tubing - GSH IndustriesMany industries require a container being shipped to be visible in the shipping tube, therefore the tube must be clear. In healthcare settings, clear medical tubing is required to measure and monitor the flow of liquids in intravenous medication delivery and in the movement of fluids between equipment in laboratory settings.
Marine and automotive products and services industries, municipalities and many other industries make extensive use of plastic tubing for a variety of purposes. Plastic tubing can be made from nylon, high or low-density polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE), PET, polystyrene, polypropylene, ABS, polyurethanes and many other raw plastic materials. Many of these materials can be engineered to be clear.
Clear Plastic Tubing - GSH IndustriesThe most commonly used materials for the creation of clear plastic tubing are acrylic materials and vinyl because of the high level of transparency they can achieve.
There are many methods by which raw plastic materials are formed into usable products. Before they can be formed, though, they must be engineered. PVC, for example, is among the more easily identifiable varieties of plastic material. But PVC does not always appear in its trademark opaque, off-white form. It can be engineered to be semi-transparent, as can many other plastics that more frequently feature opaque surfaces.
Only plastics like acrylics, which are naturally clear, do not require special engineering to become transparent. Once engineering of raw materials is complete, raw plastic materials meant to become plastic tubing are usually fabricated by extrusion. Plastic extrusion is one of the thermoforming (heat forming) processes used to turn raw plastic materials into usable products.
The process begins with a collection of raw plastic, or stock, in a hopper suspended above a conveyance channel. Once dropped into the channel, the stock is compressed and heated by a long turning screw. The stock is heated until it reaches a molten state and is then forced through a die, which is a tool used to shape raw materials.
The stock emerges on the other side of the die in its new tube shape, after which it is allowed to cool and harden. The new tubing is then cut to length and prepared for shipment or additional processing.