| Welcome to the premier issue of extrusions from plastic tubing manufacturer NewAge® Industries, Inc., the Fluid Transfer Specialists®.
 If you’re involved with plastic and rubber tubing and hose, fittings and clamps, hose assemblies, or custom tubing, extrusions is for you. It’s a new communication tool developed to inform, educate, and advise you about the many ways in which tubing and hose are, and may be, used.
Each issue will include:
- A focus on a particular tubing material
- Tubing and hose buying tips
- Tech Talk, a section devoted to industry terms, FAQs, and technical issues
Other topics in the works are product comparisons, application stories, NewAge team member/department profiles, uses for tubing and hose that you may not have thought of, a feedback area, and surveys and quizzes. And we’ll keep you up to date on things here at NewAge, too, like new product developments and our 55th anniversary happening this year.
Finally – let’s face it – plastic tubing is pretty basic, so we’ll try to bring some humor into the mix. Learn and enjoy!
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Tubing & Hose Buying Tips
#1: Ingredient Approvals
It can be challenging to make sure you’ve covered all the bases during the tubing and hose selection process. Have you considered all the elements involved with the application? Temperatures, chemicals, pressures, flexibility needs? In Tubing & Hose Buying Tips we’ll address common selection factors, one at a time, in each issue of extrusions.
 The first point we’ll focus on is ingredient approvals. You may need to know if the tubing or hose under consideration is manufactured with FDA (Food and Drug Administration), NSF (National Sanitation Foundation), USP Class VI (United States Pharmacopoeia), 3A (a dairy industry organization), or other association-approved ingredients. READ MORE...
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Material Focus
PVC
 Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, was discovered in the late 1800s. Scientists observing vinyl chloride, a newly-made chemical gas, learned that when the gas was exposed to sunlight, it underwent a chemical reaction now recognized as polymerization. This resulted in a solid material, but it was difficult to work with. READ MORE...
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Tech Talk
A quick look at some tubing and hose manufacturing terms that perhaps you’ve heard, but you’re not sure of their meaning.
Extrusion: The process of compacting and melting a plastic or rubber material and forcing it through an orifice (die) in a continuous fashion. It’s how NewAge manufactures its tubing and hose.
Die: A device for forming material into a particular shape such as a tube. Dies are placed at the end of an extruder barrel and determine the size of the tube. They are exchanged for each tubing run of a different size.
Run: A quantity or amount of something produced at one time.
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On the Light Side
In the Next Issue
- Tubing & Hose Buying Tips
#2: Pressure and Vacuum Requirements
- Material Focus
Silicone
- Tech Talk
FAQs on Our Inventory and Shipping
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IN THIS ISSUE
Tubing & Hose Buying Tips
#1: Ingredient Approvals
Material Focus
PVC
Tech Talk
Tubing & Hose Terms
On the Light Side
A Touch of Humor
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