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What you can buy
Stainless steel
- Tube & pipe
Sizes
- Capacity
- Annual capacity of more than 100 million feet of tubing; 49.6 million feet produced in 2024 across 4,602 unique part numbers
- Size range
- Miniature tubing from about 0.004" to 0.25" OD, including standard hypodermic gauges in regular, thin, extra-thin, ultra-thin and micro-thin wall
- Tolerances
- ID and OD tolerances often within +/-0.0005"; Brite Drawn and PTFE plug-drawn IDs under 20 microinches RMS
- Forming and drawing
- Precision roll forming and laser welding of strip, sink drawing, plug drawing, heat treating/annealing, centerless grinding and rotary straightening
- Alloys
- 304/304L, 316/316L, 321, 347 and 17-7 PH stainless; titanium grades 1–4 and 9; Inconel 625 and 718, Hastelloy C-276, Haynes 282; MP35N, Elgiloy and other Co-Cr alloys; Invar
- Cutting
- Factory, machine-feed and burr-free cut ends by shear, chop, score-break, electrolytic and laser cutting
- Cleaning
- OD wipe, in-process ID particulate removal, ultrasonic and acid cleaning, with managed outsourced cleanroom cleaning
- Ordering
- Stock tubing sold through an online store as well as custom orders and prototype development
About K-Tube Technologies
K-Tube Technologies is a precision tubing mill in Poway, California, founded in 1974. It roll-forms and laser-welds precision strip into continuous tube, then sink- or plug-draws, anneals, grinds, straightens, cuts and cleans miniature stainless steel, titanium and nickel-alloy tubing in stock gauge sizes and custom dimensions, with tolerances to +/-0.0005", for medical device, aerospace, fiber-optic and industrial manufacturers.
- Processing
- Tube making
- Industries served
- Medical devices, Aerospace, Fiber optics (fiber in metal tube), Automotive, Heat exchangers, Industrial instrumentation
- Certifications
- ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015
- Ownership
- Part of Cook Group
Location
Poway, CA
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