Mood image of blue Masterflex smooth tubes for industrial engineering

Smooth Tubes for Industrial Use

Masterflex smooth-bore tubes are used wherever media need to be safely conveyed, surfaces need to be easily cleaned, or specific flow characteristics need to be achieved. 

Request Technical Specifications 

Smooth-Walled Tube for Industrial Applications

Smooth tubes can be adapted to specific technical requirements through the use of variable material combinations, spiral-wound tubes, functional strips, or custom fittings.

Tube systems with smooth inner and outer surfaces are used in many industrial sectors. They are particularly suitable for applications with high demands on media conveyance, cleanability, flexibility, or chemical resistance.

Depending on the application, material composition, wall thicknesses, surface properties, and functional elements can be individually tailored to technical requirements.

Possible Tube GeometriesMaterial Variants

 

Typical Properties of Tubes

Spiral Tubes from Masterflex If you are looking for spiral tubes.

Product manager Torsten Gebhardt demonstrates a customizable smooth hose solution from Masterflex
Teaser image: Tube geometries from Masterduct
Example image: Smooth tubes in applications for the paint industry
Moodbild Ausführung Glattschlauch als Mehrfachschlauch: Twinhose von Masterflex
Product image of a smooth tube as a spiral tube, with kink protection spring
Smooth tube with various profiled surfaces on the inside and outside

Smooth Tubes: Technical Specifications and Functional Components

Smooth tubes can be designed with a variety of technical functions and structural properties. Depending on the application, additional elements can be integrated to enhance stability, orientation, visibility, or specific functionalities.

The technical design is, of course, based on the specific requirements of the industrial application.

Request Technical Specifications

 

Possible Functional Designs

Tube Geometries and Functional Features of Smooth Tubes

Masterflex’s smooth-wall tube technology makes it possible to tailor the geometry, wall construction, and material selection specifically to technical requirements. Depending on the application, smooth-wall tube solutions can be designed to meet defined specifications regarding flexibility, stability, chemical resistance, and installation conditions.

In addition to standard geometries, application-specific designs are also possible, such as for special cross-sections, tight installation spaces, or precisely defined wall thicknesses. This allows smooth-wall tubes to be designed in such a way that they can be reliably integrated into various industrial applications.

Additionally, functional elements can be incorporated into the tube design, for example for identification, structural differentiation, or to support specific technical requirements. This results in smooth industrial tubes whose construction, material composition, and function are specifically tailored to the respective application.

Monolayer Tube

Masterflex smooth tube portfolio: Monolayer tube Schematic representation of the Masterflex smooth tube portfolio: Monolayer tube

Single-layer smooth-bore tubes with a standard inner and outer geometry. The simple wall construction is suitable for applications where a standard functional cross-section is technically sufficient.

Multilayer Tube

Multi-layer tubes whose layers are extruded one after the other. They combine different material properties, even of otherwise incompatible materials (with an adhesion promoter layer if required). This results in inert, pressure-resistant or flexible layers, for example.

Multilumen Tube

Tubes with several separate channels. Each channel can carry its own medium or wire. Ideal for complex applications with separate functional paths - but can only be produced in sections.

Multiple Tube

Multiple tubes bundle several separate tube lines into one tube and thus enable compact, clear and safe parallel routing of different media or functions.

Wire-Integrated Tube

Tubes in which a wire is embedded during extrusion. The wire can heat, conduct or stabilize. If the wire is completely encased, the extruded tube also serves as insulation.

Wire Sheathing

A process similar to wire wrapping, but here an existing tube is covered with another layer of plastic. This is used for protection, to improve the feel or for functional integration.

Round belt

Belts with a round cross-section manufactured as endless goods or suitably deflected. These round belts made of PU are mostly used in mechanical engineering as drive or transport elements.

Schlauchummantelung

Bei der Schlauchummantelung wird ein Glattschlauch mit einer zusätzlichen äußeren Schicht versehen. Dadurch lassen sich Eigenschaften wie mechanischer Schutz, chemische Beständigkeit oder Oberflächencharakteristik gezielt beeinflussen.

Profilschlauch

Diagram of the Masterflex smooth tube portfolio: profiled tube or corrugated tube

Einschichtige Glattschläuche mit profilextrudierter Innen- und Außengeometrie. Der frei individualisierbare Wandaufbau eignet sich für technische Anwendungen, in denen ein spezielle Querschnitte erforderlich sind. 

Oval or Flat Tube

Schematic representation of the Masterflex smooth tube portfolio: oval tube or flat tube

We manufacture single-layer oval and flat tubes with smooth inner and outer surfaces. These tubes for technical applications can be fully customized in terms of material, color, dimensions, wall thickness, and printing.

Laboratory scene: smooth tube development – customizable geometries for multilumen tubes

What Distinguishes Smooth Tubes from Designs with Fabric Reinforcement?

Single-layer tubes with classic inner and outer geometry. Simple in design, but versatile in use if a basic, functional tube cross-section is sufficient.

Looking for a smooth tube with functional features?

Tubes with Functional Strips

Tubes in which functional strips are embedded - e.g. for the identification of various media, for visibility in X-rays or for the integration of conductive strips in industrial environments.

Novoplast Schlauchtechnik: Schlauchkonstruktionszeichnung Funktionsstreifen eingebettet in Schlauch

Glattschlauch Formteile und Verbindungsmöglichkeiten

Für komplexe Einbausituationen oder definierte Medienführungen können Glattschläuche mit Formteilen, Übergängen oder Verbindungselementen kombiniert werden. Dadurch lassen sich technische Systeme an vorhandene Einbauräume und Prozessanforderungen anpassen.

Neben linearen Schlauchsystemen sind auch geformte oder funktional erweiterte Ausführungen möglich.

 

Mögliche Ausführungen von Glattschläuchen

Mood image: Masterflex smooth tube fittings

Anwendungsbereiche für Glattschläuche

Application of industrial smooth tubes in lifting technology

Innen und außen glatte Industrieschläuche werden in zahlreichen industriellen Anwendungen eingesetzt. Je nach Branche stehen unterschiedliche Anforderungen an Flexibilität, Reinigbarkeit, Medienbeständigkeit (s. unsere Liste Chemische Beständigkeiten von Kunststoffen) oder mechanische Eigenschaften im Vordergrund.

 

Typische Einsatzbereiche von Glattschläuchen

Technische Möglichkeiten für individuelle Glattschläuche

Durch variable Werkstoffkombinationen, funktionale Ausstattungen und unterschiedliche technische Ausführungen lassen sich Glattschläuche an vielfältige industrielle Anforderungen anpassen.

Von glatten Standardsystemen bis hin zu technisch erweiterten Ausführungen unterstützen wir industrielle Anwendungen mit passenden Schlauchlösungen.

Individuelle Schlauchlösungen  Produktmanager kontaktieren

Laboratory scene: smooth tube development – customizable geometries for multilumen tubes

Stellen Sie Ihre Kontaktanfrage für Glattschläuche bei Masterflex

Produktmanager Torsten Gebhardt kennt sich aus!

Sie möchten eine individuelle Schlauchgeometrie umsetzen oder benötigen ein bestimmten Kunststoff für Ihre Schlauchanwendung? 

Melden Sie sich - wir freuen uns über technische Herausforderungen! 

Torsten Gebhardt, Masterflex Smooth Tube Product Manager

We only use your personal data to deliver your ticket. For more information, please see our privacy policy

MASTERFLEX – Technische Schläuche & Verbindungen

Get in touch with us

Do you have general questions about the organisation, our locations or would you like to make a specific enquiry to Masterflex? Or are you looking for a specific contact person for a particular department? We have a few suggestions for you to choose from.

MASTERFLEX – Technische Schläuche & Verbindungen
MASTERFLEX – Technische Schläuche & Verbindungen