Zeus offers many value-add services to refine your product to your specific application. These services are typically additional manufacturing steps on tubing, which we can provide to help you better optimize your finished product. Our ability to perform these operations in-house allows you to eliminate downstream processing steps, ultimately helping you save both time and money. Here are a few of our value-add services we offer:
Convoluted. Helical convolutes are formed during extrusion to create tubing that is highly flexible and kink-resistant. We can cuff the ends of PTFE convoluted tubing to provide a smooth finish that easily attaches to fittings. We can also slit convoluted tubing so wires or optical fibers can be easily wrapped for protection or pulled out to reach connections.
Drilling. Zeus has the ability to create custom holes and patterns down the length of your tubing.
Etching. PTFE, FEP, PFA, and ETFE are very lubricious tubing products. Sometimes, applications require them to be bonded effectively to other parts, including other plastics. To improve bondability, chemical etching can be applied to the outside diameter (OD), inside diameter (ID), or both.
Fillers. Zeus can add fillers to our materials prior to extrusion to enhance attributes such as tensile strength, abrasion resistance, static dissipation, and more.
Flaring. Zeus has the ability to create custom flare shapes on one or both ends of tubing to enable easier insertion of medical stents, wires, optical fiber, and other instruments into the extrusion’s inside diameter.
Flanging. We can heat-form tubing material around 90 degrees from the OD to create a stop-gap for overmolded components. Flanges can be round, rectangular, or square.
Product Assembly. Zeus offers light product assembly services to supply a finished sub-component, such as applying heat shrink over wire, or attaching metal fittings and other components to the tubing.
Contact our team or call toll-free in US 1-800-526-3842 or +1-803-268-9500 internationally today to see how we can develop a precision solution to give you a competitive advantage or to request prototyping samples.
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