Parflex
Parker’s Parflex Thermoplastic and PTFE hose and tubing are manufactured to be robust and resilient, able to withstand some of the most demanding industrial and manufacturing environments. These hose, tubing, and other products are widely used in a variety of industries, including:
- Off-road equipment (material handling, construction, agriculture and forestry)
- Transportation (truck, bus & coach, e-mobility and marine)
- Oil & gas (upstream, midstream and downstream)
As well as many additional applications, such as water jetting, robotics, electronics, and semiconductor manufacturing. Further, Parflex also offers customized and specialty products for particular uses and extreme conditions. Cross Company is proud to partner with Parker to provide thermoplastic hose at our five North Carolina hose stores.
Parflex Hose
Parflex Fittings
Parflex Tubing
Featured Parflex Products
Parker has been a long time valued partner with Cross and offers the following products and accessories.
Available In The Following Areas
Though we’re based in North Carolina, that doesn’t mean we can’t supply high-quality Parflex hose, tubing, and fittings to our customers throughout the country. Contact our Customer Care Team to learn more or to order the hose and fittings product your operation needs.
Why Use Thermoplastic Hose?
Every type of hose must be temperature resistant and able to handle environmental stress to avoid hose failure and safety risks. Thermoplastic hose from Parker has many features which make it superior over traditional rubber hose in industrial applications:
Parker’s unique bonding process
During manufacturing, projects are created on the outside of the core that extend up into the braid, while the jacket material is forced down into the braid from the outside. This leads to superior temperature resistance, durability during constant flexing and good chemical/corrosion resistance.
Erosion resistant cores
The mandrel-free construction ensures that it won’t be contaminated with lubricant. And since a hose saw is not required, there’s little contamination due to cutting. This makes for a safer, more efficient hose for a wide variety of industrial applications able to withstand tough environments.
Wear resistant hose jackets
Once the jacket of a hose is damaged, the internal layers are very vulnerable to damage. However, thermoplastic hose does not delaminate and cause jacket failure and wire fatigue. Most also feature UV and ozone resistant covers, to better withstand cracking and UV damage.
Parflex's Superior Performance
There are many advantages of using thermoplastic hose over traditional hydraulic hose. Many of these advantages stem from the makeup of the hose as well as the manufacturing process that produces them. Other benefits include:
Abrasion resistance – Thermoplastic materials are intrinsically abrasion resistant and can offer up to five times the abrasion resistance of rubber hose.
Cleanliness – The manufacturing process of thermoplastic hose introduces far less contaminants than that of rubber hose and therefore does not always require the hose to be cleaned before using.
Permeation resistance – The materials which make up thermoplastic hoses can also have an inherent resistance to both ingress and egress, in particular carbon dioxide, oxygen and nitrogen.
Quieter – Reduce machine noise by using thermoplastic hoses with specific reinforcement, for improved operator comfort and noise pollution
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