Our customers often ask us what grades of USFDA or NSF compliant tubing that we extrude for food contact. Generally, for caps, closures, and cups, FDA has not established compliance. Thus, UV stabilized butyrate (our formula 576E) is considered the standard. However,...
UV Stabilization
We have manufactured butyrate tubing for marina docs, oceanic core tubes, and other aquatic uses but here is a first. It is a butyrate flotation bend. The bend was sectioned together with butyrate discs and solvent welding before the bending process. We achieved the...
We recently filled an order with specialty bends for Provista (PETG) UVO. This clear, transparent conveyance system is UV stabilized and FDA/NSF approved. We also supplied sleeves for the order. In order to maintain NSF standards, the sleeve is thick-walled. This...
Do not use acrylic tubing bends! We received a package in the mail today. We were asked to please "make two more like these." The broken bend was acrylic, and thus, it came in in fragments. We did our best to reconstruct it, but with a wall that varied nearly .030",...
We are often approached for heavy-walled tubing in CAB (butyrate), PETG, and Tritan up to 1/2" in thickness: no problem. We have extruded a 3" OD Butyrate tube with a .625" a specialty product for. S. King Fulton Corp. They chose Busada butyrate tubing for its...
Decades ago, Rodney Hunt Company, Orange MA and Waterman Industries, Inc., Exeter, CA began using our butyrate tubing to protect their stems from weathering. Butyrate (CAB) protectors provided clarity, UV protection, and fracture resistance without the weight and...