While we're known for clear, transparent plastics tubing, we do more. Busada has extruded PVC, black ABS, and colored CAB. Last month we set out to run a rainbow of colors from black, red, greens, blues, yellows, and colors in between for a musical piping project....
Colored Tubing
Busada Mfg. Corp has been manufacturing and selling clear transparent tubing for over 70 years. Only in the last 5 years have we added colors, and so it's been more colors every year. It's about time we wrote a blog on some ways that we can color our tubing. First, we...
One of our customers had a need to color several hundred ft. of tubing for three pneumatic conveying lines. The lines travel overhead at the factory ceiling as a labyrinth of turns and curves. The plant manager wanted a way to easily view each line from the floor. We...
One of our cup manufacture customers got creative. Their factory was getting congested by an array of clear pneumatic tubing to the point where they could not visibly detect one cup line from the other. Their engineers wanted an easy way to distinguish the lines...
Recently we had a request to make circular and helical small diameter bends for a lighting project. We designed special heaters for the project and made our prototypes with clear, transparent CAB (butyrate). The trick is proper annealing. We not only heat our bends to...
When the noted Adirondack Studios asked for a light diffusive tube for a “fire ring” I had no idea that it would lead to a trip to Chicago and some much-needed culture. All that I knew was that this fire ring was to be used in an opera. It was to be made in 16...