Despite the recent times of economic uncertainty, the sustained growth of Aflex Hose is anticipated to continue throughout 2011, as a result of the manufacturing expansions, and the appointment of new distributors in diverse international markets during 2010. These advances provide the foundations for Aflex to excel in the coming years, ensuring utmost quality with both Aflex products and customer service.

Aflex continues to head the market as the world's leading manufacturer of PTFE flexible hose technologies, with innovative products and concepts designed with the primary intention of offering our customers complete solutions to hose management issues, helping you save time and money.

Full traceability is key to the success of efficient hose management and is fundamental in the Biopharm and Pharmaceutical industries where validation processes must be maintained. Aflex Hose has recently introduced encapsulated batch numbers onto its Pharmaline brand of PTFE flexible hoses, ensuring full traceability throughout the supply chain.

Aflex have also developed a standard labelling system, and coined the world's first fully integrated sanitary hose labelling system, Puretag, allowing customers to customise their label with critical information like hose testing dates, part numbers, and hose cleaning systems.

Standard Labelling - Vibro etched on to a loose stainless steel ring mounted onto the hose.

Puretag Labelling - Encapsulated on to the braid by a transparent platinum cured rubber cover, which is integrally fully bonded to the rubber cover on the hose.

Puretag is the world's first fully integrated sanitary hose labelling system, offering significant improvements over the conventional silicone bubble encapsulated labelling systems. Our commitment to providing innovative products to the pharmaceutical industry is evident in Puretag, complemented by the whole Aflex product range, in our attempt to ensure all our customers benefit from efficient hose management.

Revolutionary reusable Relink end fittings from Aflex Hose are a cost effective end fitting range designed for our Pharmaline and Pharmalex hose products. The idea of reusable end fittings is by no means a new one, but in the past the high cost of components, and the difficulty and unreliability of assembly methods have been the downfall of previous reusable designs, along with the lack of availability of a wide range of end fitting designs.

The new innovation for end fitting attachments can be used to assemble all the standard Aflex end fittings, including sanitary triclover fittings. Relink from Aflex is ground breaking in all aspects, providing solutions to all disadvantages of previous reusable fittings, and allowing our customers an easy, cost effective, on-site assembly.

Aflex are able to offer a complete hose management service with our market leading hygienic, pharmaceutical PTFE flexible hose range. Our FDA approved Pharmaline and Pharmalex range are designed around the patented Aflex PTFE liner, creating an ultimate hose product, combining both the advantages of a smoothbore and convoluted hose. Pharmaline and Pharmalex PTFE lined flexible hoses represent the perfect easy clean, cost effective hose solution for the pharmaceutical industry and are manufactured in accordance with the world's leading governing bodies.

For solutions to your hose issues, or for more information about Puretag, Relink, Pharmaline and Pharmalex ranges, or any other Aflex products, please contact the Aflex team on +44 (0)1422 317238.