The Comprehensive Guide to Flexo? PET Colors

Braided sleeving is already known as an important cable management tool to organize and protect wire harnesses. But did you know that Flexo? PET from Techflex? is an expandable, general purpose sleeve that can be used for a range of applications, from office cable and wire organization to automotive wire and cable coverage? ?

There are more than 80 color combinations to choose from, making it useful for branding, product customization, color coding and wire identification purposes, or applications where high visibility is a necessity. This sleeving is also used on wiring for aesthetics, to make it either stand out or blend in. A kaleidoscope of standard solid colors available in the Flexo? PET sleeving family encompasses all primary and secondary colors.

Branding

Do you have a particular need for the wires within your business? Or are you looking to increase the visibility of your brand on cables and wires? Flexo? PET could be useful because of its vast color selection, with most choices available as regularly stocked colors. Choose from solids, patterns, tracers, neons, stripes, the “UniTrace” sleeving family, and other color groupings. Among the more than 80 color offerings, there are standard patterns and combos to choose from. Techflex? additionally has several unique special order options, which were developed per customer requests. These alternatives make Flexo? PET ideal for nearly any application.

Product Customization

Flexo? PET has been incorporated into special projects too because of the many color preferences available, like for high fidelity audio cables, high-end athletic shoes, performance golf accessories, scuba hose protection, custom motorcycles, and many other creations.

Providing Color Coding and High Visibility

Some of Flexo? PET colors, patterns, and combos are used for color coding wires. Color coding is important to alert a person to a wire’s purpose. A few include:

Red: This color can be designated to warn of danger, to show wires are able to endure higher temperatures, and to designate the hot wire (the one that carries the current).?

Green: It is a color that may be purposed for environmentally sensitive applications, such as renewable energy systems. It may be paired with yellow for grounding, such as in the Flexo? PET Ground Stripe patterned sleeving that incorporates green with subdued yellow oblique striping.

Orange: This is used in the aviation industry to distinguish test cables. Orange is furthermore used as the standard for marking high voltage EV cables.

Flexo? PET neutral hues like black, white, tan, brown, and gray, are useful in applications where the wire installation needs to blend into its environment, particularly in office wire management, vehicle harnesses, and industrial cable management. There are some that have unique characteristics, such as Carbon, which is sleeving with sophistication because of the clear monofilament woven into black. Black Magic, like Carbon, has black as its base color, but is infused with a purple hue. The Clear sleeving looks amazing when placed over a black hose, glimmering like metal to give the item it covers an impressive appearance.

A couple of the patterns have special meaning. Nitrox is a prominent yellow with green bold diagonal-striping, used for hose cover in scuba diving tanks. The black and yellow slanted striped sleeve can be used in a “caution” or “safety” capacity, alerting a person to proceed carefully around particular wiring.?

There are UV reactive neon colors that can glow under some types of lighting too. This sleeving can enhance high visibility cables and is another color family that could be used on scuba equipment, to provide visual enhancement to hoses in greater water depths.??

Aesthetics

Some of the Flexo? PET patterns and designs are intended to give unique effects to wiring, including:

Tracers: Flame retardant (FR) sleeving with a woven tracer woven is mainly used in advanced engineering applications within aviation and aerospace, but in Flexo? PET, the tracer design can be used to give wires a particular look. There are standard types like neon yellow with black, gray with white, black with neon green, and black with beige. There are additionally special order combinations like red with a black tracer.? Further tracer configurations are part of our UniTrace family, often used to identify special types of wiring, with vibrant tracers in a generous array of color choices.??

Mixed Color Effects: There are also many striking Techflex? standard color patterns to choose from for effect, from Snake to Checkered Flag; or Superhero to Jester.

Techflex? is constantly developing new Flexo? PET sleeving colors and combinations. Visit www.Techflex.com for updates and the current lineup here.

Learn more about Flexo? PET and its color choices in the video below: