Plastic tubes

Are you one of the professionals who use plastic tubes?

As with glass tubes, much the same professions use them. It all depends not only on what the container is for, but also on who the plastic tube is intended for. Will you reuse it, or will it be sold to your customers?

Staff in health and chemistry research laboratories generally use glass tubes because they may need to heat them. But not everything is heated, so there is no need to buy only glass tubes. Quite the opposite: keeping plastic tubes in stock also lets you replace glass tubes that may have broken. Our wide range of plastic tubes and our compatible stoppers make these containers easier to handle.

Before the laboratory stage, if you are a nurse, whether in private practice or in a healthcare facility, you have a real need for tubes to collect your patients’ blood. You can use plastic tubes, which you close with a plastic stopper or capsule. You can easily write the patient’s name directly on the tube with a felt-tip pen, or stick a label on it in advance. Then, after your rounds, you pass all the tubes on to the laboratories chosen by your patients. In our shop, we offer a few colours of varying opacity to tell the tubes apart, which can be handy for seeing more quickly where each one is going, depending on the conditions being tested for.

If you are a doctor or pharmacist, you regularly need to test your patients to find out whether they are positive for certain viruses, or simply whether an illness is viral or bacterial in origin. For this, you have the necessary equipment, such as a swab, which you place in the mouth or nostril to collect a little mucus. You then dip the swab into the solution ready in the plastic tube or microtube with a lid to mix it all together. Finally, you place a few drops on your test cassette to find out whether the result is positive or not, or the origin of the condition being tested for.

Do you work in cosmetics? You no doubt need tubes, or even glass or plastic jars. Whether you want to offer your customers a sample or sell a larger jar, you will find here a whole array of glass and plastic tubes and jars that will be very useful in your line of business. Day creams, night creams and specific preparations will fit in the containers we offer, as we have an extensive range to serve your customers as well as possible.

What are the advantages of plastic tubes?

The first advantage that comes to mind with a plastic tube is that it is unbreakable. Although glass has some serious strengths, it has to be said that a plastic tube is far more impact-resistant than its glass counterpart.

Plastic tubes also have the advantage of being easier to handle and more flexible. If you run a restaurant and want to offer your customers a tasting, you can opt for plastic tubes, which will last much longer. Indeed, one of the advantages of plastic is that it does not corrode.

If you need to handle the tube with a clamp or any other equipment to hold it, we recommend that you buy plastic tubes, which are less likely to slip from the grip.

Another advantage, and by no means the least: plastic tubes work out considerably cheaper than glass ones.

Whether to favour the plastic tube or the glass tube really depends on your trade, how you will use it and the final destination of the product. That said, whichever you choose, we offer a wide choice of sizes and pack quantities to meet all your needs.