Corrugated Tubing Made of Regenerated
Polyamide for Cable Protection Brings
Additional Sustainability to the World
of Industrial Robots
With its new cable protection tubing of 100% regenerated polyamide 12, REIKU,
one of the most innovative and diversified developers and manufacturers of
high-quality cable protection systems for robotics and automation, is once
again making its mark in matters of sustainability.
The extended product range, which also
includes corrugated tubing of biobased
polyamide 11, has a nominal width ranging
from 7 mm to 95 mm for the entire field of
application from cobots right up to large
industrial robots. Agiplast, a pioneer in
the regeneration of engineering plastic
compounds and a development partner of
REIKU, produces and supplies the halogen-free,
self-extinguishing, non-flame-propagating
re-compound (RGN by Agiplast) in consistently
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high and traceable quality. REIKU markets the
respective corrugated tubing using the PARAB
identification code.
Managing Director David Guitton: “In our industry,
an uncompromising commitment to consistent
high quality is one of the fundamental conditions
for lasting customer confidence. For this reason,
we did not make it easy for ourselves to switch to
processing regenerated Polyamide for some of our
products. In extensive tests, our supplier Agiplast