PTFE Tubes and its Unique Properties – Useful in Most Industries
PTFE tube is popularly also called Teflon Tube. PTFE Tube appears milky white or semi transparent product. Due to fluorine carbon chemical bonds, it has very high chemical resistance and interesting is a non toxic material. PTFE Tubes is classified food grade by FDA and hence used in many food and pharmaceutical applications around the world.
PTFE tube is also called Poly Tetra Fluro Ethylene tube. PTFE tube is manufactures using paste extrusion method in a batch process. The length of the PTFE tubes is hence limited by the batch size. PTFE tubes are manufactured in various diameters and lengths. Advanced Fluro Tubes also manufactures PTFE tubes in different colors like yellow, red, orange, green, blue & black.
PTFE tube is the most ubiquitous among all flexible Fluoropolymer Tubing
The inside and outside surface of PTFE Tube is smooth and has very low coefficient of friction and extremely good lubricity. PTFE Tube is preferred for its high corrosion resistance which makes PTFE Tube very useful in laboratory environments, where it’s used to transfer highly corrosive chemicals like acids and many other chemically aggressive solvents.
PTFE Tube offers a very high electrical insulation. The pantographs in trains, for example, contain PTFE tubes, for providing electrical insulation at thousands of volts. The break down voltage of PTFE tubes manufactured by Advanced Fluro Tubes is > 20 KV/mil. PTFE tubes manufactured by Advanced Fluro Tubes are hence sought after by OEM customers.
The minimum working temperature of PTFE tubes is -70 deg Celsius and so PTFE tubes can be used in cryogenic conditions, for example in liquid Nitrogen applications and in space applications. There are many applications where UV light is used for either killing germs or for quick drying materials. Since PTFE tubes have excellent resistance to UV light they are used extensively in technologies using UV light. Due to high working temperature & smooth and non sticky inside surface of PTFE tubes, they find use in 3D printing industry to transfer filament from the spool to the hot printing nozzle.
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