PVC hose pipes are used in industries such as food, dairy, irrigation, and healthcare. However, its high corrosion resistance to chemicals and weathering means it can have many other applications. Our PVC formulation has anti-tangling and flexibility properties, making it suitable for flat hoses. This facilitates transportation and storage, increasing convenience. Typically, PVC is more economical than its counterparts. It comes in light, medium, or heavy-duty options, and can also be reinforced. This makes PVC one of the most popular hose and pipe materials.
PVC pipes are a safe choice for drinking water transportation. This is because they possess high inertness and corrosion resistance. Thus, PVC hose pipe is not prone to biofilm contamination as a breeding ground for bacteria. By helping provide clean water, PVC hose pipe is advantageous to public health. PVC pipe is used for various pipeline applications, from delivering drinking water through drainage solutions to advanced fire sprinkler systems. This popularity is attributed to a unique combination of characteristics: safety, durability/cost-effectiveness, environmental performance, and recyclability.
Corrosion resistance:
The deterioration of water supply pipelines due to corrosion poses an increasingly threatening challenge to our ability to provide safe drinking water, and is a complex and costly problem in many areas of the world, including Australia. PVC hose pipes are not affected by external corrosion underground or internal pipeline corrosion. Therefore, while certain pipeline manufacturers continue to explore “solutions” to corrosion – because their materials are affected by corrosion – PVC remains unquestionably corrosion-resistant.
Corrosion in older technology pipelines is also the number one cause of water pipe bursts. With water pipe bursts and their impact on surrounding areas, radio news stations don’t go one day without announcing traffic diversions and road closures. Reports last year even suggested that burst water pipes were causing cars and property to be swallowed up. Compared to cast iron, ductile iron, concrete, steel, and asbestos cement pipes, PVC hose pipes have been proven to have the lowest pipe break rate.
Chemical resistance:
PVC flexible hose pipe has excellent resistance to various chemical reagents and disinfectants. Due to the low risk of materials passing through the pipes, PVC flexible hose pipe is well-suited for most water infrastructure projects, as it can transport most strong acids, alkalis, and water-soluble solutions (excluding strong oxidants), hydrocarbons, fluorides, photographic and electroplating solutions, saline water, mineral oils, fats, and alcohols.
