High Purity Tubing Brief Introduction
High purity tubing and ultra high purity (UHP) stainless steel tubing is the main product group of the high performance stainless steel tubing of our seamless tubing factory. As one of the leading high performance BA (bright annealed) & EP (Electropolishing) stainless steel tubing manufacturer, our factory produces and supplies high purity tubing as below.
■ Seamless cold finished tubes
■ Material: 316L stainless steel, equivalent EN DIN 1.4404;
■ Bright annealed, Mechanical Polished or Elector-polished;
■ High Purity and Ultra high-purity tubing
■ Tubes are suitable for orbital welding
■ Size Range: Metric size OD 5 mm to O.D 50 mm; imperial size 1/4 inch to 2 inch
■ Tube Marking: Size (OD x WT), Material, Product Standard, and heat No.
■ Tubing Packing: Tube end capped with plastic caps, each tube packed in a separated bag.

Details of High purity tubing / UHP (Ultra-high purity) tubing
Here below is the detailed description of our factory’s stainless steel high purity and ultra high purity tubing.
- SPECIFICATION
- MATERIAL
- SURFACE
- SIZES
As one of the leading China high purity tubing manufacturers & suppliers, our factory produces and supplies stainless steel high purity and ultra-high purity tubes with most popular international standards. Here below is the typical list of standards we follow.
Fractional Sizes | Metric and Imperial Sizes | |||||||||||||||||||||
ASTM A269 | ASTM A269 / A270 |
The most popular material for our stainless steel high purity and ultra high purity tubing is SS TP316L, equivalent EN DIN 1.4404. Here below is the chemical composition.
Element | Chemical Composition wt. % | ||||||||||||||||||||
Chromium | 16.5 - 18.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nickel | 10.0 - 13.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Molybdenum | 2.00 - 3.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Manganese | max. 2.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Silicon | max. 0.75 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Carbon | max. 0.035➀ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sulfur | 0.005 to 0.012 (seamless); 0.030 max (thermocouple-cleaned) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Phosphorus | 0.040 max. |
Other stainless steel grades are available upon customer's request.
Younglee's stainless steel high purity tubing usually is supplied with bright annealed surface and mechanical polished surface, and our stainless steel Ultra-high purity tubing (UHP tube) has an electropolished inside surface finishing of roughness max Ra 0.25µm ( 10 µin.) .
Surface Treatment | Inner Surface Roughness | Outer Surface Roughness |
Bright Annealed (BA) | Ra 0.4μm (16Ra) to Ra 0.8μm (32Ra) upon request | Ra 0.8μm max |
Mechanically Polished (MP) | Ra 0.4μm (16Ra) to Ra 0.8μm (32Ra)upon request | Ra 0.8μm max or upon request |
Electro-Polishing (EP) | Ra 0.25μm (10Ra) Max. | Ra 0.8μm max or upon request |
All the high purity & ultra high purity (UHP) tubes are with ends capped with PVC caps; every BA tube is packed individually in a single polyethylene bag, and EP tubes are individually double bagged, then bulk bagged in a clean room, and then packed in wooden cases.
As a professional high purity tubing manufacturer & supplier, Younglee manufactures and supplies both imperial size and metric size of high purity tubing. Here below is some popular sizes.
Table 1. Imperial Sizes of high purity & Ultra-high purity (UHP) tubing
Tube OD in. | Tube Wall in. | Ordering Code | Weight kg/m | Working Pressure psig |
Stainless steel 316L Seamless high purity & ultra high purity (UHP) tubing | ||||
1/4 | 0.035 | ODT4-S-035-6M | 0.12 | 5100 |
3/8 | 0.035 | ODT6-S-035-6M | 0.19 | 3300 |
1/2 | 0.049 | ODT8-S-049-6M | 0.35 | 3700 |
3/4 | 0.065 | ODT12-S-065-6M | 0.71 | 3300 |
1 | 0.065 | ODT16-S-065-6M | 1.2 | 2400 |
Table 2. Metric sizes of high purity & Ultra-high purity (UHP) tubing
Tube OD mm | Tube Wall mm | Legth m. | Ordering Code | Weight kg/m | Working Pressure bar |
Seamless 316L Stainless Steel high purity & ultra high purity (UHP) tubing | |||||
6 | 1.0 | 6 | ODT6M-S-1.0M-6M | 0.125 | 420 |
8 | 1.0 | 6 | ODT8M-S-1.0M-6M | 0.175 | 310 |
10 | 1.0 | 6 | ODT10M-S-1.0M-6M | 0.225 | 240 |
12 | 1.0 | 6 | ODT12M-S-1.0M-6M | 0.275 | 200 |
18 | 1.5 | 6 | ODT18M-S-1.5M-6M | 0.619 | 200 |
Other sizes are available on customers' request, and normally the length our high purity tubing is 6 mtrs, other length is available on request.
High purity & Ultra-high purity tubing applications
Stainless steel high purity tubing and Ultra-high purity (UHP) tubes are widely used in applications where high cleanness, high purity and high performance are required, here below is a list of the typical applications.
- High purity liquid or high purity gas convey
- Clean gas supply system construction
- UHP tubes for semiconductor wafer processing and medical industries
- Laboratory gas convey
- Size Exclusion Chromatography
- Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography
- Ion Exchange Chromatography
- Affinity Chromatography
- Reverse Phase Chromatography
- Biotechnology
- Pharmaceutical instrumentation
Besides stainless steel high purity & ultra high purity tubes and pipes, we also supply below high purity products.
- Ultra-high purity stainless steel fittings
- Ultra-high purity stainless steel valves
- Stainless steel ASME BPE Tube & fittings
- Ultra-high purity Coaxial tubing

Customers who are interested in high purity and ultra high purity (UHP) tubing and fittings, please contact us for more details.
Contact details:
EMAIL: [email protected]
TEL: 0086-(0)18612706695