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Industrial Hoses
Industrial hose from 3/16 to 18 inch
Suction and discharge, chemical transfer, steam, ducting, material handling, washdown and air, stocked across both Long Island shops and cut to whatever length the job needs.
Industrial hose is picked by what runs through it before anything else. Get the tube material wrong and the hose fails early no matter how well it is rated for pressure.
Anatomy
Three layers, three jobs
Every industrial hose on the rack is built the same way. Knowing which layer does what makes it much easier to work out why one failed.
The tube
The inner wall, and the only part that touches what you are moving. Its material decides chemical compatibility and temperature limits. This is the layer that swells, softens or cracks when the wrong hose gets put on a line, and the damage is invisible from outside until it lets go.
The reinforcement
Textile plies, wire, or a helix wire wound through the wall. Plies carry working pressure. A helix stops the bore collapsing under vacuum, which is the entire difference between a suction hose and a discharge hose that looks the same on the shelf.
The cover
The outer skin, doing nothing for pressure and everything for survival. It takes the abrasion from being dragged, the ozone and sunlight from sitting outside, and any splash from the outside world. A cracked cover means the reinforcement is next.
Materials
Tube material against medium
General orientation only. Tap any cell for the reasoning behind it. Anything aggressive gets confirmed against the actual chemical at the counter, not off a grid.
Tap any cell in the grid
Six tube materials against six broad categories of medium. Pick a combination and this panel explains why it sits where it does, and what usually goes wrong when the pairing is ignored.
This grid is orientation, not a specification. Concentration and temperature move these answers around considerably, and a material that handles a chemical cold can fail with the same chemical hot. Bring the safety data sheet, name the chemical and its strength, and the hose gets selected against that rather than against a category.
Read The Hose
Everything is printed on the side
The layline running along an industrial hose tells you most of what you need to reorder it. On an old hose it is often worn off, which is exactly why it is worth reading before you throw the failed piece away.
- Bore
- Inside diameter, usually shown in both inches and millimetres. Always the bore, never the outside measurement.
- Working pressure
- What the hose is rated to run at continuously. Burst pressure is higher and is not headroom to spend.
- Service or type
- What the hose was built for. Suction and discharge, air, steam, chemical, material handling.
- Tube material
- The compound touching the medium. This is the line that tells you whether the replacement can be the same hose.
- Temperature range
- Minimum and maximum service temperature. Heat ages a hose faster than pressure ever will.
- Date or batch code
- Often a quarter and year. On anything carrying fuel or steam this matters, because those hoses age on a clock.
Buying It
Cut to length, ends fitted here
Bulk hose by the foot
Tell us the bore, the service and how many feet. It comes off the reel and you take it away. No fixed coil lengths and no minimum, which matters on large bore where a standard coil is both expensive and more than anyone needs.
Bring a marked offcut if you have one. The layline identifies the exact hose, and matching it beats describing it.
Or built into an assembly
Cam and groove, banded ends, crimped ferrules or interlocked steam fittings, put on at the counter and matched to the wall construction and bore. Most assemblies are finished the same visit.
That side of it lives on industrial hose assemblies, with the ends themselves on industrial fittings and adapters.
Before You Buy
Common questions
Name the medium and its strength, not the category it belongs to. The grid above gets you oriented, but two chemicals in the same family can behave completely differently against the same rubber, and temperature shifts it again. Bring the safety data sheet if there is one, or a marked offcut of the hose you are replacing.
A helix wire wound through the wall. It holds the bore open when the hose is pulling under vacuum. Without it the tube collapses flat as soon as the pump starts, which is why a discharge hose put on a suction line fails almost immediately. Suction rated hose can generally be used for discharge, but never the reverse.
Yes. Hose is cut off the reel to whatever length you ask for, across the whole range from small bore up to 18 inch. There is no minimum and no fixed coil.
That is heat or weathering, not pressure. Steam, a hot medium, or years of sunlight and ozone will harden the tube and cover until it splits. The fix is a different construction or a different cover compound rather than a heavier pressure rating, which would not have helped.
Up to 18 inch, which covers most ducting, suction and material handling work. Very large bore is heavy and awkward, so call the counter before driving over on those and we will confirm what is on the floor and how long an assembly would take.
Yes. For plants, municipalities and fleets running the same assemblies repeatedly we set stocking levels around actual consumption, keep the specification on file so reorders never need measuring again, and for critical items hold dedicated inventory on our shelf rather than yours. Ask at either counter or through the contact page.
Get It Cut
Tell us what runs through it
That one answer narrows the whole decision. Bring the failed hose or the details to either counter and we will match it, cut it and fit the ends.