Shipping Tubes
Standard PVC
For more than 50 years, the semiconductor industry has been relying on shipping tubes as the main medium to carry their components between Assembly and Test operations or to their end customers. Its popularity remains today for two simple reasons - economy and flexibility. We carry more than one thousand open tools that run from through-hole, surface mount to leadless packages (QFN, MLP, etc). Our products also serve the connector, LED and passive component customers.
Features Benefits - Good impact strength
- Crack free tubes
- Stable dimension
- Excellent smooth interfacing with handlers
- Critical dimension control within +/- 5 mils
- Higher productivity, more man-to-machine ratio
- Short cycle time
- Short lead time
Polycarbonate
Polycarbonate shipping tubes are our high performance shipping tube series. Our deep knowledge in shipping tube design, polymer science and extrusion processing technology allows us to produce shipping tubes with +/- 2 mils ( +/- 50 microns) of dimensional tolerance control. This unique tight tolerance capability helps many of our customers to improve their machine uptime, reduce scrap and minimize rework.
Features Benefits - Tight tolerance.
Critical dimension control +/- 2 mils
- Accurate unattended high speed device loading and unloading
- Superb clarity/transparency
- Ease of visual inspection
- Package guide profile design
- Prevent device piggy back, shingling and unit rotation
- High impact strength
- Ideal for MSOP and TSSOP square body packages
- Tight tolerance.
“Green materials”
We are committed to global environment preservation by building a strong sustainability mindset across our organization. We walk the talk.
We actively support the 3R concept -- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
We are constantly looking for opportunities to introduce products that can help to minimize the impact to the environment. A wide choice of "green materials" such as PS1,PC2 and PETG3 polymer products are a testimony to delivering that commitment.
PS1 shipping tubes
Features Benefits - Halogen free
- Reduced environmental impact
- Improved clarity/transparency and impact strength
- Good clarity/transparency without compromising impact strength
- Available in clear or translucent
PETG3 shipping tubes
Features Benefits - Halogen free
- Reduced environmental impact
- Strongest impact strength
- Excellent for heavy duty big packages
- Excellent clarity/transparency
- Application examples: microprocessor heat sink and ceramic TO packages.
1. Polystyrene (PS)
2. Polycarbonate (PC)
3. Polyethylene Terepthalate Glycol (PETG)Reuse tube solutions
If you want to reuse shipping tubes to transport your ICs within your operation without having to worry about antistatic coatings come off the tube surface that could compromise ESD protection, clear top conductive(CTC) and open top conductive polystyrene shipping tubes will be excellent alternative choices. These tubes are compounded with conductive polymers so that they make the tubes permanently conductive with SR less than 105 ohm/sq.
Clear top conductive (CTC) tubes
Although the tube material comes in conductive black, we are able to provide a clear PVC window strip spread along the tube top to cater for visual inspection to our customers through the clear window.
Open top Conductive Polystyrene (CPS) tubes
Features Benefits - Conductive Polystyrene
- Halogen free
- Fully conductive
- Maximum ESD protection
- Open top
- Visual inspection and devices counting
End Closures
We supply end closures in various configurations – end nails and pins, POS-STOP integral punch out stopping features, twist locks, elastomer and soft vinyl end plugs and stoppers.
Stoppers – End Plugs
Stoppers – End Pins
Design
SOIC 150/ 300 mils tube family
DIP 300/ 400/ 600 mils tube family
MSOP/ TSSOP tube family
MLP/ QFN 3x3 to 12x12 tube family
PLCC/ LCC 18/ 20/ 28/ 32/ 44/ 52/ 68/ 84 tube family
TO tube family
Process
Just give us your package outline drawing, our team will take care of the rest.
Our fully integrated in-house full service CNC toolshops can turn designs in as short as 2 days into production packaging.
We design our processes around your needs. Our state of the art extrusion line is highly flexible to adapt to various materials and profile sizes. Our unique in-house fast-set-up-quick-change program enables us to fill your orders in a short leadtime even though you may have highly customize requirements such as length, printing or pre-inserted pin or plug.
Our quality labs offer a range of test capabilities including ASTM 457, ESD tests to STM 81705 and FTM Faraday cup standards.
Summary of Material Properties
Properties
Raw Material
Tensile strength
ASTM-D638Elongation at Break
ASTM D-638Flexural strength
ASTM-D790Impact strength (Izod)
ASTM-256Heat Deflection
ASTM-D6481] Polyvinyl Chloride Compund (PVC)
549kgf/cm2
min 70%
831kgf/cm2
min. 14kgfcm/cm
60 degree C
2] Polycarbonate (PC)
640kgf/ cm2
120%
870kgf/ cm2
85kgfcm/ cm
133 degree C
3] Polystyrene (PS)
428kgf/ cm2
40%
600kgf/ cm2
0.635kgfcm/cm
75 degree C
4] Poly Ethylene Terephthalate Glycol (PETG)
295kgf/ cm2
109%
733kgf/ cm2
9.58kgfcm/cm
67 degree C
Test data is for reference purposes and shall not be construed as specification.