Transferring our experience manufacturing tubes for several core industries and applications, Fine Tubes has been able to develop a broad variety of products for other fields where high purity and high performance are critical. Our commitment to precision and excellence has created demand for our tubes in various growing sectors including semiconductors, sports, pharmaceuticals and more.
Companies manufacturing High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) columns routinely rely on Fine Tubes and we supply tubes covering all the standard sizes required in this industry. Our HPLC column tubing is at the forefront of technology used in chemistry and biochemistry, providing unparalleled peak performance thanks to the innovative manufacturing and process control methods we’ve developed. This market requires equipment with specialty smooth ID and OD conditions, and we offer tubes at an Ra of 0.35 microns ‘as drawn’, and below 0.20 microns Ra after electro polishing.
Our Ultra High Purity (UHP) tubes are used throughout both the semiconductor wafer processing and medical industries. Fine Tubes has supplied the smooth bore UHP tubes used in semiconductors ever since microchips were first manufactured on an industrial scale. Similar to HPLC these UHP clean bore tubes are offered ‘as drawn’ at 0.40 microns Ra and below 0.20 microns Ra after electro polishing.
We also supply high performance tubes designed specifically for pharmaceutical applications. Here customer requests vary from large volumes of standard instrumentation tubes right down to small quantities of bespoke and specialist products. Fine Tubes will work with you to meet your needs. We manufacture seamless, welded and welded and redrawn tubes in a range of corrosion resistant alloys to satisfy the demands of design engineers.
Materials with a high strength-to-weight ratio can provide the winning edge in a whole variety of sports. We’ve been able to take what we’ve learned manufacturing mission-critical tubes for the aerospace, medical and nuclear power industries and apply that experience to developing high performance tubing for sporting equipment. You’ll find Fine Tubes products providing great mechanical strength in Formula 1 cars, bicycle frames and lacrosse sticks, for example.
Applications
- HPLC columns for chemistry and biochemistry
- Hydrophobic Interactive Chromatography
- Size Exclusion Chromatography
- Ion Exchange Chromatography
- Affinity Chromatography
- Reverse Phase Chromatography
- UHP tubes for semiconductor wafer processing and medical industries
- Pharmaceutical instrumentation
- High mechanical strength sports applications