• Bio-Chem Fluidics

Custom Tubing Sets for Fluid Handling

Bio-Chem Fluidics is helping instrument manufacturers save time and assembly costs by offering pre-assembled tubing sets to their exact specifications. Kits for complete instruments can be supplied under a single part number, enabling manufacturers to simplify their purchasing and inventory management. Customers can mix and match a wide range of ferrule types, fitting nut designs and colours, tubing sizes and materials to custom configure their ideal system. They can also choose single or multiple tubing sets, fittings at one or both ends of a line, different coloured fitting nuts for colour coding fluid lines, and mesh wrapping to simplify tubing management within an instrument. The tubing sets are assembled to exact specifications by Bio-Chem Fluidics’ skilled production staff, ensuing a perfect, leak-free connection. The most popular options for instrument manufacturers are from the Omni-Lokä fitting range, which features a compact fitting nut in robust, glass-filled polypropylene or PEEK® and a choice of chemically inert ferrule types. The Omni-Lok® fitting nut also features a recess to house the ferrule, allowing maximum thread engagement with the port. This ensures the system stays sealed up to the rated pressure even in shallow or PTFE ports. The nut can spin freely, eliminating tubing twist and is available in a choice of nine colours for easy colour-coding of fluid lines. Fitting nuts are available in robust, glass-filled polypropylene or PEEK® and in 1/4”-28 UNF, M6 and 5/16"-24 UNF thread types. To support the new range of tubing sets the company has also published a comprehensive new fittings systems catalogue which details the complete range of Omnifit® fittings, connectors and adaptors, with particular emphasis given to the Omni-Lokä range. Bio-Chem Fluidics, a subsidiary of Halma p.l.c., is a world leading manufacturer of inert, miniature fluid handling components. Under its Bio-Chem Valve® and Omnifit® brands it offers complete fluid system solutions for a wide range of industries including analytical chemistry, clinical diagnostics and medical device manufacture, as well as a large labware portfolio for the scientific community. The company’s design and prototyping expertise also enables it to offer simple modifications of standard products as well as completely customised designs.