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Inno­va­tion Means Con­tin­u­ous­ly Advanc­ing Quality

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8. September 2026

Inno­va­tion is often asso­ci­at­ed with new tech­nolo­gies or ground­break­ing inven­tions. For us at ETHEN, inno­va­tion means one thing above all: con­tin­u­ous­ly devel­op­ing our exist­ing process­es, manufacturing meth­ods and exper­tise. Because only through con­tin­u­ous improve­ment can we main­tain con­sis­tent­ly high quality standards.
Our aim is to reaf­firm our high standards of quality every sin­gle day. We achieve this not through indi­vid­ual major changes, but through many care­ful­ly con­sid­ered improve­ments in our dai­ly work. These improve­ments extend to our manufacturing process­es, materials, ser­vices and quality standards.

Flex­i­bil­i­ty in Manufacturing and Mate­r­i­al Selection

One exam­ple is our manufacturing process. We pro­duce capillary and precision tubes with out­side diameters rang­ing from 0.7 mm to 19.05 mm and offer our cus­tomers a high degree of flex­i­bil­i­ty. Thanks to our stock list and manufacturing process­es, we can also sup­ply small quan­ti­ties with­out a min­i­mum order quan­ti­ty. At the same time, we reliably man­u­fac­ture and deliv­er larg­er quan­ti­ties accord­ing to agreed schedules.
We are also con­tin­u­ous­ly expand­ing our exper­tise in the materials we use. Whether tita­ni­um, nick­el alloys, stainless or heat-resis­tant steels, or special materials: each mate­r­i­al group has its own require­ments in terms of pro­cess­ing, quality assur­ance and manufacturing process­es. We con­sis­tent­ly devel­op this exper­tise to pro­vide the right mate­r­i­al and spec­i­fi­ca­tion for a wide range of applications.

Effi­cient Process­es for Dif­fer­ent Requirements

Anoth­er important part of our approach to inno­va­tion is cam­paign pro­duc­tion. By group­ing pro­duc­tion accord­ing to materials, we cre­ate repro­ducible manufacturing con­di­tions, cost-effec­tive pro­duc­tion and reli­able deliv­ery times. At the same time, this approach allows us to respond flex­i­bly to dif­fer­ent cus­tomer require­ments and effi­cient­ly han­dle both indi­vid­ual require­ments and larg­er series.
Inno­va­tion does not end with the man­u­fac­ture of the tube. We also con­tin­u­ous­ly devel­op our ser­vices relat­ed to tube pro­duc­tion. Whether draw­ing, redraw­ing, straight­en­ing or anneal­ing: we sup­port our cus­tomers with our manufacturing exper­tise through­out the tube pro­duc­tion process, cre­at­ing the basis for indi­vid­ual requirements.

Precision Based on Clear­ly Defined Standards

Our com­mit­ment to quality is par­tic­u­lar­ly evi­dent in our manufacturing tolerances. Our precision tubes meet the require­ments of DIN EN ISO 1127 D4/​T4. We can also achieve tighter tolerances on request. Our own ETHEN tol­er­ance stan­dard of ±0.05 mm for the out­side diam­e­ter and ±10% for the wall thick­ness under­lines our com­mit­ment to pre­cise and repro­ducible manufacturing quality.
For us, inno­va­tion there­fore does not mean con­stant­ly rein­vent­ing what already works. Inno­va­tion means com­bin­ing expe­ri­ence with new insights, con­tin­u­ous­ly improv­ing process­es and pro­vid­ing our cus­tomers with precision, quality and reli­a­bil­i­ty over the long term.