polyethylene tubing

Polyethylene Tubing

Nexcycle Plastics recycles plastic scrap for making polyethylene tubing. As a polyethylene recycler, we recycle polyethylene for a variety of products made using the extrusion or injection molding processes, i.e., polyethylene tubing. Our products, NPI – 04HDPE Mixed Color and NPI – 01LL/LD Mixed Color are manufactured from recycled polyethylene and are well suited for making polyethylene tubing. If you're a manufacturer of polyethylene tubing, we have a well stocked supply of polyethylene and are well placed to offer you the lowest cost performance solutions available.

What is Polyethylene Tubing?
As a part of the much larger plastic tube family, our polyethylene is one of the most widely used resins for making plastic tubing. Usually defined as hollow cylinder for the conveyance of fluids, liquids or gases, polyethylene tubing ranges in dimensions from 0.05" ID to 4.125" OD. Polyethylene tubing can be supplied in natural or translucent white in or colors. It can be coiled, cut to length, or wound on a reel and packaged as required. Polyethylene tubing is used mostly as air or water tubing. Derived from ethylene gas, there are different types or grades of polyethylene: 1) high density polyethylene or HDPE tubing which is semi-rigid, and 2) low density polyethylene or LDPE which is more flexible. Linear low density polyethylene or LLDPE tubing is as flexible as LDPE but a little tougher. It is typically used as air lines or as pneumatic tubing, water tubing and as hydraulic tubing which is usually under pressure.

Resin Properties
Some of the most important properties of our recycled polyethylene as a tubing polymer include its melt index and density properties. They are key indicators of what the melt strength and flow will be for processing. If you're looking for resin to use in blow molding, film extrusion, pipe and profile extrusion processes, the lower the melt index, the greater the melt strength will be. If you're looking for resins for your injection molding process, a higher melt index will mean a faster melt flow which helps to fill the mold cavities in shorter period of time. The properties of our products are listed below:

LL/LD RESIN PROPERTIES	ASTM TEST	UNIT ENGLISH (METRIC)	NOMINAL VALUES
Melt Index	D1238	gm/10 min	0.5 to 1.2
Density	D1505	gm/cm3	.918 to .930
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HDPE RESIN PROPERTIES	ASTM TEST	UNIT ENGLISH (METRIC)	NOMINAL VALUES
Melt Index	D1238	gm/10 min	0.3 to 0.9
Density	D1505	gm/cm3	.945 to .960
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Applications
Part of polyethylene's appeal as a plastic tubing material is due to its unique combination of properties including chemical resistance to most acids, solvents, bases and vegetable oils, tensile strength, flexibility, transparency, stiffness, and optical clarity. As a tubing material, it can be used in aerospace, automotive, chemical, cryogenic, food processing, high purity, high temperature, high viscosity, medical, pharmaceutical and petrochemical applications. Depending on the application, polyethylene tubing is used to transport everything from coolants to hydraulic fluids, salt water, slurries, or water.

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