Applications for PTFE hoses
Air Conditioning | Dehydration lines for steam puriging prior to filling with refregerant | Hot gas |
Bakeries | Heating supply lines to batter mixing kettles | Steam |
Bottle making | Power lines, hot bottle stacking machine | Air |
Breathing apparatus | Cylinder to pressure gauge or demand valve | Compressed air or oxygen |
Car, Bus and Truck | Brake lines, Brake clutch and sump hoses fro high performance cars (rally and racing models), Radiator hoses, Turbocharger installation, Alternative fuel vehicles | Hydraulic brake fluid, clutch and brake fluid, fuel and oil, cooling water, oil drain, CNG/LPG |
Carton making | Supply lines on milk carton manufacturing machines | Hot waxes and adhesives (non-toxic) |
Chemical | Chemical transfer hoses | Various acids alkalis, solvents, hydrocarons etc. |
Cosmetics | Transfer hose | Powders and oils |
Distilling | Barrel filling | Liquids |
Electronics | Coolant lines for electronic racks and equipment | Water |
Food | Deep frying oil and fat recirculating racks and systems, Transfer lines for corn syrup processing, Heat supply lines, individual jam packaging machines | Hot edible animal and vegetable oils and fats, glutamates, seam |
Industrial gases | Cylinder charging hoses often "cleaned" for H.P. oxygen | Oxygen, nitrogen, argon, acetylende, helium etc. |
Laundry, Dry Cleaning | Steam line on laundry presses, irons, machines | Steam |
Light Buoys, Lighthouses | Flexible feed lines cylinders, light burner | Acetylene |
Marine | Hydraulic control and power systems (steering gear etc.), Condesnsate lines | Fire resistant and water emulsion hydraulic fluids, steam |
Motorcycles | Hydraulic clutch, brake and oil | Clutch and brake fluide, oil transfer |
Oil | Tranfer hose | Crude oil, salt water |
Packaging Industie | Adhesive lines for sealing | Industrial solvents |
Paintball | Gas lines for guns | CO2 gas |
Paint spraying | Supply lines, airless sprying systems | Paint, lacquers, organic solvents |
Paper and cardboard making | Heating lines to drum type and surfaces finishers and rollers on, corrugated box board formers | Steam |
Power stations | Feed lines to burners | Fuel oil |
Press and injection moulding machines | Heating and cooling lines to platen presses, and injection moulding heads | Alternating steam and cold water |
Process Plant | Transfer hose cooling and/or heating hose, ventilation pipe | Slurry, distillates, plating solutions, water, oil, air, partial vacuum |
Refrigeration | Plate freezers, chiller cabinets, capillary lines | Brine, refrigerant fluids |
Shoe making | Supply lines on sole cementing machine | Hot adhesive and cement |
Television/Radio | Non-conductive cooling hoses on transmitters | Water, steam, air |
Test rigs | Highly flexible large bore transfer hose | Water air, hydraulic oil, vacuum |
Textiles (processing plant) | Heating lines on dryers (similar to paper making industriy) | Steam |
Tyre and Tube Manufacturing | Heating lines on tyre press machines | Steam |
Tyre remoulding | Heating lines on retreading machines | Steam |
Urethane foam manufacturing | Supply lines on foam making machines | Hot resins and activators, at high pressures |