{"id":810,"date":"2018-02-19T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeusinc.wpengine.com\/specs_product\/tapering\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:07:12","slug":"tapering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/products\/value-add\/tapering\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tapering<\/strong>\u00a0is one of our many available value-add customization services. This process creates an angled, or tapered, end on your polymer tubing product. Tube tapering can be performed in two different ways:<\/p>\n<p>For an\u00a0<strong>outside diameter (OD)<\/strong>\u00a0only taper, the outer or outside tube wall is thinned to create the taper, leaving the inside diameter (ID) of the tube unchanged, including the tapered section.<\/p>\n<p>Taper length, taper angle, and taper tube dimensions are customizable.<\/p>\n<p>OD only tapering is best suited to melt resins. We recommend FEP, LDPE, HDPE, PEEK, and nylons for this kind of tapered plastic tubing.<\/p>\n<p>For an\u00a0<strong>ID and OD taper<\/strong>, both the ID and OD of the tapered portion of the plastic tube are reduced while also thinning the tube wall over the length of the taper if needed.<\/p>\n<p>As with an OD only taper, taper length, taper angle, and taper tube dimensions are customizable for ID and OD tapers.<\/p>\n<p>ID and OD tube tapering can be performed on tubing made from any of our resins.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about tapering or any of our other value-add services,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/contact-us\">contact us<\/a>\u00a0or call toll-free in the US 1-800-526-3842. Internationally, you can reach us at +1-803-268-9500. Let us help you develop just the right tapered tubing solution for your application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tapering\u00a0is one of our many available value-add customization services. This process creates an angled, or tapered, end on your polymer tubing product. Tube tapering can be performed in two different ways: For an\u00a0outside diameter (OD)\u00a0only taper, the outer or outside tube wall is thinned to create the taper, leaving the inside diameter (ID) of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":811,"parent":714,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-specifications.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-810","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusinc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}