Plastic Extrusion
Plastic tubing encompasses a wide range of tubes and pipes made from various plastics. Its versatility ensures its presence across numerous industries, from the stringent demands of aerospace and industrial applications to the sterile safety standards required in medicine and beverage tubing.
Plastic tubing refers to any number of tubes and pipes produced using plastic. The versatility of plastic tubing makes it a presence in countless industries.
Applications of Plastic Tubing
The applications of plastic tubing are endless, but for the most part come down to the general idea of transferring fluids, gases, or certain solids from one point to another.
Plastic tubing is used more often than tubes made of steel and other competing materials for a few reasons. First, plastic tubing can be designed to be flexible in a way other tubes and pipes cannot. Second, plastic offers an extremely wide range of material options, such that a manufacturer can produce tubes as at-home in extreme industrial applications at extreme temperatures and pressures as they are in mundane day-to-day applications. Plastic tubes are also generally cost effective compared to similar alternatives.
Nearly every industry on the planet uses plastic tubing in one form or another. Any industry which needs to convey flowing materials from one location to another will probably use some form of plastic tubing to achieve it at some point in the process. Just a few notable industries that use plastic tubing in major roles include
- Medicine and pharmaceuticals – Used for intravenous delivery of drugs, blood transfusions, and countless other applications.
- Aerospace engineering – Used for fuel tubes, hydraulics, and transference of other fluids. Similar applications in automobiles and other mechanical devices.
- Water management – Used in plumbing, water treatment, irrigation, and drainage systems.
- Agriculture – Used to transfer fluids, bulk solids, and other substances on a wide variety of farms.
- Fuel – Used in piping systems for liquid and gaseous fuels such as gasoline, natural gas, and butane.