PRESS RELEASE

Plastics, rubber and other tubing
and a neglected safety-critical problem

   

Tubing made from plastics, rubber and other materials is so common throughout industry that it is often overlooked.  But, because tubes are normally impervious to liquids, people forget that they are never impervious to gasses.  Tubes made from some materials allow gasses the rapid escape (permeation) through their walls. Results can be catastrophic.

To make matters even worse, manufacturing process such as forming or extruding can quadruple the amount vapour that permeates through a material. If you want to keep vapours such as water, CO2, hydrocarbons or oxygen either in, or out, the only reliable answer for any part you produce is to test it.  And that is where Versaperm comes in.

Measuring and characterising this permeability, or leakage, through tubes, materials and finished products is fast, accurate and easy with the latest generation of Versaperm equipment.  This may be doubly critical as vapour permeability can also affect a material's other physical characteristics, including strength, handling, resistance, print quality and the way they perform in general.

Versaperm's equipment gives an accuracy that is typically measured in the parts per million range, (parts per billion with some gasses and materials).  The system is ideal for testing, development work and for Quality Control on tubes, plastics, rubber, components, containers, films, coatings and even multi-layer barriers.

As well as manufacturing the instruments, Versaperm offers a permeability laboratory service for companies that need to test samples on an irregular basis.

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Versaperm Ltd: 10 Rawcliffe House, Howarth Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 1AP, UK,
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For Further Press Information please contact:
Gerry Palmer @ the Palmer & Rose Partnership
Tel +44 (0) 1494 637499
e.mail gerry@palmer-rose.co.uk