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Tube Cutting Services

Tube Cutting Services at Engineered Plastics

Cut-to-length plastic tubing services play a crucial role in optimizing supply chain efficiency for industries like aerospace, medical technology, food processing, and biopharma. By ensuring precision cuts, reducing material waste, and streamlining production workflows, these services will help your business lower costs while meeting strict quality standards. We provide advanced plastic tube cutting solutions that enhance productivity and support critical operations.

Far more than a cutting service, this solution helps maintain tight tolerances, improve turnaround times, and focus on innovation. Let’s explore the key benefits of cut-to-length tubing and how thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics delivers customized solutions to meet the unique demands of various industries.

Tube Cutting Services: Bagging, Labeling, and Barcoding

Time and Cost Efficiency

One of the most significant advantages of using cut-to-length tubing services is the ability to optimize time and cost efficiency. When you decide to cut tubing in-house, it requires you to invest in specialized equipment, skilled labor, and additional material handling, all of which increase your overhead.

Key Benefits of Outsourcing Cutting

  1. Reduced Material Waste: Having us precut tubing eliminates offcuts, reducing material loss and waste disposal costs.
  2. Lower Labor Costs: Your employees can shift focus to higher-value tasks, such as assembly or production, rather than manual cutting.
  3. Faster Production Timelines: Tubing arrives ready for immediate use, streamlining assembly processes and minimizing downtime. Let us bag, label, and barcode your tube cutting order to your exact specifications.
  4. Improved Inventory Management & Shipping: We can efficiently manage the inventory of the tube pieces for your orders. We also offer Just-in-Time (JIT) shipping and Kanban scheduling.
  5. High-Quality Materials: Cut-to-size flexible tubing pieces are available in a wide variety of materials including Tygon®, silicone, rubber, vinyl, LDPE, nylon, PTFE, PVC, and more.

By outsourcing flexible tube cutting to thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics, your company can improve your workflow efficiency and achieve significant cost savings. This allows resources to be redirected toward innovation, enabling your business to stay ahead in highly regulated and precision-driven industries.

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Unmatched Material Quality and Versatility

The right tubing material is just as important as the cut itself. thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics provides one of the broadest selections of high-performance tubing materials, ensuring compatibility across temperature-sensitive, chemical-resistant, and biocompatible applications.

Premium Tubing Options Include:

  • Tygon® Tubing: Recognized for its durability, chemical resistance, and adaptability to varying temperature and pressure conditions.
  • Clear Tubing: Ideal for fluid monitoring in basic transfer applications, offering visibility and reliability.
  • Yellow (Natural) Tubing: Engineered for enhanced chemical resistance, making it suitable for harsh environments.
  • FDA-Compliant Grades: Essential for food and pharmaceutical applications, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements for hygiene, sterility, and chemical safety.

Each product undergoes rigorous inspections and quality control to maintain dimensional accuracy, ensuring the material meets exact specifications and retains its tube integrity. Whether for beverage systems, industrial processes, or medical devices, the emphasis on quality ensures reliability and longevity.

Our tube cutting process can cut a wide variety of plastic materials

Applications Across Industries: Precision-Cut Tubing for Maximum Performance

Food Processing Applications

In food and beverage processing, tubing plays a vital role in ingredient transport, pneumatic systems, and fluid transfer. Whether used in food dispensing equipment, filling machines, or ingredient pipelines, manufacturers must ensure strict hygiene standards, precise dimensions, and seamless functionality to prevent contamination and production inefficiencies.

Precut tubing solutions eliminate manual on-site cutting, reducing the risk of human error and improving sanitation by minimizing particle contamination. Additionally, our FDA-compliant tubing, including Tygon® materials, ensures compatibility with food-grade applications while offering resistance to oils, cleaning agents, and temperature variations.

By leveraging precision cutting and customization, food manufacturers can:

  • Improve production speed by eliminating in-house cutting and manual processing.
  • Ensure compliance with FDA and food safety regulations, preventing contamination risks.
  • Reduce labor costs and increase consistency in food-grade tubing applications.

Pharmaceutical and Biopharma: Customized Solutions for Sterile Processing

In biopharma and medical industries, precision and sterility are non-negotiable. Plastic tubing is essential for fluid transfer systems, peristaltic pumps, IV lines, and diagnostic equipment—all of which must meet stringent industry standards for chemical compatibility, temperature resistance, and contamination prevention.

Pre-cut medical-grade tubing ensures:

  • Regulatory compliance (FDA, USP Class VI, ISO 10993) for pharmaceutical and laboratory environments.
  • Exact tube lengths for seamless fit into peristaltic pumps, preventing kinking or flow disruption.
  • Consistent performance and sterility, reducing downtime and ensuring medical devices function reliably.

Precision tubing also plays a role in single-use biopharmaceutical processing, where customized tubing solutions help maintain product integrity and reduce the need for additional handling. thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics provides high-performance biocompatible tubing that supports critical pharmaceutical manufacturing applications.

Industrial and Aerospace: High-Performance Tubing for Demanding Environments

For industrial and aerospace applications, tubing must withstand extreme temperatures, chemical exposure, and mechanical stress while maintaining precision tolerances. In manufacturing environments, tubing supports:

  • Chemical processing and fluid transfer systems
  • Pneumatic machinery and automation equipment
  • High-pressure hydraulic applications

Aerospace applications require tubing that performs in extreme conditions, including:

  • Fuel and hydraulic line protection
  • Cooling system tubing that withstands fluctuating temperatures
  • Lightweight, high-strength materials to support weight reduction initiatives

With custom-cut, tight-tolerance tubing, industrial and aerospace manufacturers can improve system efficiency, reduce waste, and eliminate bottlenecks caused by imprecise cuts or material inconsistencies.

Beyond Industry Standards: Custom and Specialty Applications

While food, pharma, and industrial sectors are the primary users of precision tubing, custom applications continue to grow in niche markets. thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics has provided tailored tubing solutions for:

  • Musical instruments, including protective tubing for guitar strings
  • Children’s toys and gaming applications, where safety and flexibility are critical
  • Laboratory research, where small-batch, precision-cut tubing supports experimental testing

The ability to customize tubing dimensions, wall thickness, and material composition ensures that clients across various industries get exactly what they need without additional in-house modifications—ultimately improving efficiency and reducing costs.

Why Choose thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics?

With decades of experience and a commitment to precision, quality, and efficiency, thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics is a trusted partner for industries requiring custom plastic tubing solutions.

  • Breadth of Materials: As a leading distributor, the company provides access to an extensive range of high-performance plastic tubing, ensuring customers find the right solution for their needs.
  • Cutting-Edge Equipment: Up-to-date machinery delivers tight tolerances, competitive pricing, and efficient processing, reducing waste.
  • Customer-Centric Approach: From kitting and barcoding to inventory management, every service is designed to simplify processes and enhance efficiency.
  • Quality Commitment: We meet industry standards like AS9100, FDA compliance, and ISO certifications to ensure reliability.

With the right materials, precision cutting, and a partner committed to efficiency, your business can accelerate performance and increase value.

Get a Quote Today

Cut-to-length tubing isn’t just about materials—it’s about optimizing your entire production process. By partnering with thyssenkrupp Engineered Plastics, businesses gain access to:

  • Pre-cut tubing tailored to exact specifications
  • Regulatory-compliant materials for food, pharma, and industrial use
  • A supply chain partner focused on efficiency, cost reduction, and quality

Ready to optimize your production? Contact us today for a custom quote!