Aflex Hose, born from our experience of the Biotech and Pharmaceutical World, today announces its entry into the chemical and general process industry. A world demanding the same exceptional performance that the pharmaceutical customer requires, a world of certification, engineering safety and cost effectiveness.

Today chemical process industries have no alternative but to use a myriad of products to cover all eventualities and processes. This creates the scenario of a different hose for each product or application increasing store inventories and decreasing company cost effectiveness.

After extensive discussions with engineers and meticulous research an industry wish list was composed:

Smoothbore Kink Resistant Chemical Resistant Vacuum Resistant Temperature Resistant Flexible Hygienic Self cleaning Permeation Resistant Antistatic Alternative outside covers Certified to your industry Standard Lined / Unlined fittings Cost Effective Product Identification

Impossible criteria to achieve some might say but Aflex Hose have taken it upon themselves to design and develop a flexible hose that provides customers with a universal hose product. Something the competition has not managed to achieve.

Aflex Hose Ltd is pleased to introduce a revolutionary new hose product,

Corroline

Corroline is built around a patented PTFE hose liner design, which is smooth bore inside but convoluted outside to generate excellent flexibility combined with 'hoop strength'.

A stainless helical wire and stainless steel wire braid reinforcement add to the kink resistance, crush resistance and the resistance of the hose to both pressure and vacuum.

This reinforced PTFE construction is therefore strong enough to withstand full vacuum and kinking without the need for either internal convolutions or the need to bond the liner to an outer cover, making it an ideal hose liner design, and a significant improvement upon standard products currently available.

The PTFE liner is then further reinforced with an outer braid, either a Stainless Steel wire braid (SS Grade) or a Polypropylene braid (PB Grade) to provide two braided hose grades.

The most popular grade (RC Grade) includes an outer cover of abrasion resistant, black antistatic EPDM rubber which is extruded on to a SS braided liner, with a super-smooth surface finish to aid external cleaning. A yellow, 'CORROLINE' stripe is printed on to the cover. Other texts and coloured stripes are also available to special order.

Aflex Hose believe 'it not only supersedes, but improves upon the wide variety of alternative hose products currently available' and has conducted tests against competitors products to support its statement.

ROLLING 'U' TEST

The Rolling 'U' test is one of many tests carried out at Aflex Hose to prove hose suitability in application. The Rolling 'U' Test is designed to determine the flex life capabililites of hose products. Corroline has proved to have at least 100 times the flex life to failure when tested alongside the best of the competitors' PTFE lined hose products.

Aflex Hose Ltd, a UK based company, was established more than 30 years ago and pioneered the concept of PTFE lined flexible hoses for the transfer of process fluids in pharmaceutical and chemical plants. Since then, the company has been committed to a program of continuous development and improvement, resulting in the most technically competent and sophisticated hose range available today.

Aflex's reputation for innovative design and build quality is second to none, and has earned the company market leadership of the PTFE lined flexible hose market for Process Fluid Applications worldwide.

For more information please contact the Aflex Hose Ltd team on +44 1422 317 238