TUBE NEWS TN December 2019 | Page 10

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 10 TUBE NEWS December 2019 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