Camsco manufacturers both the glass and stainless steel tubes used in Gerstel instruments in the 6mm x 7” size. Our expansive in-house manufacturing capabilities provide flexibility for clients, including the ability to fuse glass frits, centerless grinding, glass blowing, grinding, lapping, annealing and polishing – all with the experience that comes with having manufactured well over one million thermal desorption tubes since 1991.

Standard Features

Camsco uses only the best raw materials. Our borosilicate-33 glass tube stock is Schott-Duran and we never use Simax tubing. All of glass the sorbent tubes that Camsco makes for Gerstel instruments are centerless ground to for an exacting OD tolerance. Both glass and steel have unique serial numbers and flow direction arrows. The steel used in these tubes is 316L stainless. The glass tubes have fused glass frits. Individual tube conditioning and glass storage vials are optional.

Custom Options

Camsco has several labeling options including ceramic barcodes, sequential numbers and color bands. We also offer high temp barcodes, laser fused color ceramic appliqués, custom OEM logos. Other options include silanized, unsilanized and quartz glass wools. Conditioned tubes can be shipped with compression fittings and glass or plastic storage containers. We also offer 3 inert coating options for steel tubes: Restek, AMCX and Corning.

Steel Tube

Glass Tube

* Available Spring 2008.