EJ Beverage

Commercial Applications

EJ Beverage now offers a full line of PVC FREE tubing and connectors for the Food and Beverage markets. Bringing innovations over from our extensive experience with medical applications, we now offer solutions for food and beverage applications.  Innovations include safe antimicrobial tubing and connectors, high temperature tubing and more.

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Home Brewing

Because we know that home brewing has become more than a hobby, EJ Beverage now gives you the same innovations that were originally developed and tested for the exploding market of craft breweries and microbreweries. Here you will also find the world’s first PVC FREE and Antimicrobial home dispensing conversion kit.

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Custom Applications

For over 30 years, we have worked with our partners to develop custom tubing and connectors for very specific applications.  From custom thermoformed tubing for routing challenges to injected molded fittings specific to an applications, we can help you overcome obstacles to your design with our partnership engineering capabilities.

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About

The vision of EJ Beverage is to enhance quality by manufacturing tubing and connectors for food and beverage markets globally.

Barrier Properties

EJ Beverage tubing products offer superior barrier properties, increased flexibility, and optimal clarity.

  • Exceptional barrier properties help prevent cross contamination of flavor and aroma.
  • Ultra-low extractables/leachables assure product quality and taste.
  • Polished inner surface increases flushability and inhibits bacterial adhesion.

PVC and BPA FREE

EJ Beverage manufactures tubing and connectors with NO PVC or BPA providing safe and effective alternatives for the food and beverage markets.

Our Products:

  • Contain no phthalates, DEHP additives or other harmful plasticizers, allowing for a clean flow of product.
  • Are manufactured using environmentally friendly methods with no harmful emissions or by-products.
  • Offer ease of use through flexibility and visual clarity to enhance quality assurance.

Commercial Applications

EJ Beverage now offers a full line of PVC FREE tubing and connectors for the Food and Beverage markets. Bringing innovations over from our extensive experience with medical applications, we now offer solutions for food and beverage applications. Innovations include safe antimicrobial tubing and connectors, high temperature tubing and more.

Beer and Brewing

Where quality assurance is critical and difficult to control at all levels of distribution and dispensing, rely on EJ Beverage tubing for the best quality between cleaning cycles. Our PVC FREE tubing is proven to be 70% more resistant to oxygen permeation.

  • Jumper lines – Ultra Barrier™– clear and flexible PVC FREE with better barrier properties than traditional PVC
  • Choker lines – Ultra Barrier™– clear and flexible PVC FREE with better barrier properties than traditional PVC
  • Gas lines – Ultra Barrier™ Gas– clear with a red stripe to help identify if something has backed up into your gas line
  • Coiled tubing – simplifies routing, organizes your system and reduces “hotspots” cause by temperature variations in cooling systems
  • High temperature – High Temp™– flexible, PVC FREE and Silicone FREE

Wine

Understanding the unique characteristics and new innovations of wine dispensing, EJ Beverage developed tubing to conquer the demands of this type of application.

Water/Dairy

EJ Beverage introduces a full line of tubing and connector products that protect your standards for best quality in water and dairy applications. For optimal barrier protection, we recommend Flexelene™ tubing in addition to our Ultra Barrier™ beverage tubing. The tubing is also available with a silver antimicrobial lining to guard against bacteria and biofilm buildup.

Dispensing Lines

  • Superior resistance to oxygen, clear and flexible.
  • High temperature – High temperature, flexible, PVC FREE and Silicone FREE.

General Beverage

For general beverage applications including everything from juice and coffee to soft drinks, EJ Beverage offers a variety of tubing lines that are changing the industry.

Home Brewing

Because we know that home brewing has become more than a hobby, EJ Beverage now gives you the same innovations that were originally developed and tested for the exploding market of craft breweries and microbreweries.

PVC Free Tubing

  • No harmful Dioxins or Phthalates
  • Tubing does not impact taste of beverage
  • Maintains clarity and flexibility
  • Resists oxygen permeation 70% better than traditional PVC tubing

Coiled Tubing

  • Cleaner and more efficient routing
  • Helps minimize “warm spots” in beer line
  • Looks great in your system!

High Temperature Tubing

  • Silicone FREE
  • Retains shape and strength at high and low temperatures
  • Pump-able – rated for peristaltic type pumping systems

Superior Single Barb Connectors

Building on over 30 years of experience in manufacturing fittings, EJ Beverage has over 6,000 connectors in different configurations, sizes and materials. Our plastic connectors are constructed of BPA FREE, FDA compliant materials with a single barb construction which has been proven to form a better seal than multiple barb fittings.

Custom Applications

Since 1987, we have worked with our partners to develop custom tubing and connectors for very specific applications. From custom thermoformed tubing for routing challenges to injected molded fittings specific to an application, we can help you overcome obstacles to your design with our partnership engineering capabilities. From custom sizes and configuration to special materials, EJ Beverage has a full engineering department to help design, prototype and manufacture specialty parts and tubing (minimum quantities and engineering fees may apply).

Custom Materials and Dimensions

Thermoformed Tubing

Formed, cut-to-length tubing, based upon customers’ design specifications, can reduce assembly time and connector requirements. Thermoforming enables clean, compact designs by allowing tighter bends that reduce space requirements.

  • Custom shapes based on your requirements
  • Thermoforming process leaves no residues
  • Design easy to trace color-coded flow paths
  • Cut assembly time and cost

Products

EJ Beverage offers a full line of tubing and connectors for a wide variety of food and beverage applications.

Beer and Brewing

Where quality assurance is critical and difficult to control at all levels of distribution and dispensing, rely on EJ Beverage tubing for the best quality between cleaning cycles.

Wine

Understanding the unique characteristics and new innovations of wine dispensing, EJ Beverage developed tubing to conquer the demands of this type of application.

  • KFlex™ – Flexible, PVC FREE, barrier properties
  • High Temp™ – High temperature, flexible, PVC FREE

Water/Dairy

EJ Beverage introduces a full line of tubing and connector products that protect your standards or best quality in water and dairy applications. For optimal barrier protection, we recommend Flexelene™ tubing in addition to our Ultra Barrier™ beverage tubing. The tubing is also available with a silver antimicrobial lining to guard against bacteria and biofilm buildup.

  • Ultra Barrier™ – Flexible, PVC FREE, barrier properties
  • Ultra Barrier Silver™ – Flexible, PVC FREE, antimicrobial
  • High Temp™ – High temperature, flexible, PVC FREE
  • Flexelene™ FX – Ideal for deionized water, available in various colors. For use with Eldon James superior single barb fittings
  • Flexelene™ CFX – For use with compression style fittings 

General Beverage

For general beverage applications including everything from juice and coffee to soft drinks, EJ Beverage offers a variety of tubing lines that are changing the industry.

  • Ultra Barrier™ – Flexible, PVC FREE, barrier properties
  • Ultra Barrier Silver™ – Flexible, PVC FREE, antimicrobial
  • High Temp™ – High temperature, flexible, PVC FREE
  • Flexelene™ FX – Ideal for deionized water, available in various colors. For use with Eldon James superior single barb fittings
  • Flexelene™ CFX – For use with compression style fittings

BFX/Ultra Barrier

Ultra Barrier is our alternative to PVC. Are tubing offers the same flexibility and transparency as traditional vinyl but without the unwanted off-gassing and toxic plasticizers in PVC.

The barrier property was proven to be 70% better than PVC tubing. Its 70% increase in barrier property has proven to be an enormous leap in preventing oxygen permeation through the tubing.

Ultra barrier is the new standard for any liquid transfer application where maintaining the quality and integrity of the liquid is essential.

Best Used / Applications

Ultra Barrier is an upgrade to most PVC tubing and most applications. Ultra Barrier tubing currently gets implemented in a wide range of industries that are primarily fed up with the side effects of PVC and are looking for a higher quality fluid transfer system to protect their liquids.

One of the largest industries in which Ultra Barrier tubing is in draft beer systems. It is well-known that PVC tubing is the weakest link in draft beer quality. Ultra Barrier can instantly upgrade any system just by replacing the PVC tubing.

Experts in draft beer quality recommend replacing PVC tubing every two years to keep beer systems healthy. Ultra barrier tubing is still undergoing longevity testing at an accredited international brewery. The tubing installed in 2014 still shows no signs of needing to be replaced. The results of this longevity test will be published once concluded.

Resistance Values For Ultra Barrier

3/16″ – 2.8 pounds per foot
1/4″ – .64 pounds per foot
5/16″ – .32 pounds per foot
3/8″ – .15 pounds per foot
1/2″ – .018 pounds per foot

KFlex

KFlex tubing is the strongest barrier tubing that EJ beverage has to offer. KFlex is a two-layer tubing lined with Kynar PVDF. Kynar PVDF is a fluoropolymer with exceptional barrier properties.

Best Used / Applications

KFlex is ideal in fluid transfer situations where it is imperative to prevent oxygen permeation and flavor staining. Some ideal applications are wine and water dispensing.

Beverage High Temp

Beverage High Temp is our high-temperature tubing. Beverage high temperature (BFXHT) has a max temperature of 135°C or 275°F. This tubing is superior to traditional silicone high-temperature tubing for several reasons:

  1. It is less tacky on the outside and stays cleaner longer.
  2. It traditionally lasts longer when used in a diaphragm or peristaltic pump.
  3. It is slightly more transparent than traditional silicone, allowing you to keep an eye on your liquid.

Beverage High Temperature tubing consists of a medical-grade material extruded in our medical-grade clean room in Denver, Colorado. Because of this, EJ beverage high-temperature tubing will be your favorite for almost any hot liquid transfer.

We have made great efforts to reduce the cost of our medical-grade high-temperature tubing to improve ease of integration into the food and beverage industry without weakening its integrity.

Best Used / Applications

Beverage High Temperature tubing should be used anywhere transferring hot liquids is necessary or requires resilient and durable tubing because pumps are flow control methods. We have not found an application where equipment manufacturers preferred their old silicone tubing to EJ high temp.

Ultra Barrier Gas “Red Stripe”

Primarily in draft beer dispensing, the CO2 lines have traditionally been red. The red color and the tubing were originally a safety feature to distinguish the different types of tubing. Unfortunately, not allowing visual inspection into the tubing has become a safety risk. It has become a problem as more harsh chemicals are used to maintain clean draft lines. If a valve in a coupler fails to operate correctly, it is possible to have dangerous cleaning agents back up into the gas lines and then ultimately into the beer.
 
Ultra Barrier Gas line is the industry’s first clear tubing with a red stripe. This simple change allows for a quick visual inspection of the gas line whenever a technician or employee is in the cooler. This process is more complex and expensive. However, we do not pass along that cost to the customer.
 
EJ Beverage sought to make the draft beer industry safer and better while increasing draft beer quality. This vision has come to fruition because EJ Beverage does not charge extra for its gas line. Let’s be honest: if the gas tubing cost more than traditional Ultra Barrier, many people would choose not to use it. By not charging extra for this feature it helps ensure installers throughout the world are taking the necessary safety precautions.

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Call us directly at 970-667-2728 or drop us an email at sales@eldonjames.com