Poly Tubing: Highly Useful For Transporting Liquid Products
Poly Tubing is one of the best packaging products for transporting air, water and chemicals. It is basically a flexible piping made of polyethylene. These pipes find usage in laboratories, drinking water transportation, drip irrigation etc. There are two categories of it: high and low density, each meant to serve different manner of requirements. Low density poly tubing is primarily used for drinking water transportation, and high density poly tubing is used in scientific labs for transporting liquid products, but not very strong chemicals like acids. However, both the category of tubing is used for food products handlings.
The main characteristic features
• High flexibility: Made of polythene, these tubing are highly flexible and can be bent to a great extent, which makes it perfect product for the transportation of liquid products, especially drinking water or water for drip irrigation.
• Resistance to cracks. Being highly flexible, it has high resistance to cracking. These piping hardly receives cracks hence don’t get leaky.
• Resistance to corrosive chemicals: These tubing are resistant against corrosive chemicals; hence it doesn’t get tarnish and posses high durability. That is why these are used in laboratories to assist different scientific applications and tastings.
Low density poly tubing is manufactured used low density polyethylene (LDPE) that weighs between 0.91 and 0.94 grams per cubic centimeter (0.0814 Oz and 0.0839 Oz per cubic inch). These piping’s made of LDPE are highly flexible, bears strong resistance against cracks and can be used in a wide range of temperatures. These two categories are industrially approved to be used for the transportation of portable water and other such food handling applications.
Poly tubing made of High density polyethylene (HDPE) weighs between 0.941 grams per cubic centimeter (0.084 Oz per cubic inch). These tubing are not as flexible as LDPE, but it stands up to sterilization by boiling. Being a sterilized product, this category of tubing is especially used for food handling applications. Moreover, this has high resistance against corrosive chemicals as compared to LDPE; this makes these more suitable for scientific applications in laboratories.
It is offered by regional or online shipping goods suppliers. They offer variety in the colors of these pipes, which are usually available in Natural (Milky white), Red, Green, Blue and Black color. The size and length of the pipes can be customized as per the requirements; whereas standard sizes are also available in the market. On purchasing in bulk from an online supplier, the buyers get a good discount.