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OEM/Miller
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A Division of
Holm Industries, Inc.
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We
manufacture tubing, but we create solutions.
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Engineered Corrugated Products
OEM/Miller has used corrugated tubing to meet customers' needs
and design requirements across a variety of applications and in many
industries. Our capabilities include incorporating corrugated and
straight sections of hose, varying the I.D. and O.D. of the tube,
changing the profile from a standard circular tube to other geometry
and then back, and adding locking cuffs or other mating features all
in a seamless, one piece design. OEM/Miller also performs secondary
operations to our corrugated tubing. Assembling components to the
tube, forming bends into the tube, and inserting the molded ends allows
our corrugated tubing to mate with a variety of surfaces. Our niche
has been replacing competing technologies such as formed rubber hoses
and blow-molded plastic parts with better functioning, lower cost
corrugated tubing designs. Let us help you meet your design and cost
objectives.
Special Cuffs/Straight Sections
Often there is a need for a corrugated tube to only bend in certain
sections or to have a smooth cuff to mate with an existing port. In
these cases, OEM/Miller can often use our standard tooling for the
bulk of a part and then design cuff tooling to meet the specific requirements
of a customer. This approach allows the customer to have a specifically
designed part that meets the application requirements for minimal
tooling costs. At other times, new corrugation designs are necessary
to meet the application requirements. Let us help you solve your problem.
Injection Molded Ends
In
fluid carrying applications, there is a need for a watertight seal
on the end of our corrugated tube that cannot be achieved with a smooth
cuff because of application pressure, the shape of the mating part
or other reasons. In these cases, OEM/Miller can offer an injection-molded
end on our tube to meet these requirements and still provide a cost
effective, one-piece design to the customer. Often, these are TPE
molded ends on a polypropelene hose. The TPE and polypropylene chemically
bond in the molding process, making a leak-proof junction. The TPE
provides an effective, rubber-like sealing surface and the polypropylene
makes a strong, low-cost tube. We also mold on a variety of other
shapes and materials to meet the specific design requirements of each
application.
Dual Wall
OEM/Miller
has developed a patent pending process to co-extrude tubing with a
TPE I.D. and a rigid thermoplastic O.D. for fluid carrying applications.
The TPE provides a soft, rubber-like sealing surface to mate with
other parts and the rigid thermoplastic O.D. provides crush strength
and abrasion resistance that could not be obtained in an all TPE part.
The result is a durable, sealable tube at a much lower cost than competing
technologies such as all TPE tubes or short polypropylene tubes with
molded ends.
A second version of our dual wall hose in our corrfoam product. In this co-extrusion, we foam the TPE I.D. to provide a one-piece insulated tube. Our standard sizes are listed in our Standard Corrugated Products-Corrfoam section. We can develop custom applications with thicker foams, unique corrugations or special materials.
In order to meet the needs of our customers for one-piece assemblies, OEM/Miller has developed cost-effective assembly methods in many areas. We have automated assembly operations to spin-weld injection molded parts to our tubes and insert checkvalves and other components into our tubes; these
automated operations create one-piece assemblies and reduce part counts. Clips or other assembly hardware are added to our tubes in our plant so that they are ready to assemble when they reach our customers; we also form bends in our tubes to meet specific routing requirements in the application, all in an effort to provide a total solution for YOU—our customer.