PU Hose — Four Builds in the Polyurethane Line

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The line as the catalogue lists it

Alongside its PVC families, the company lists a PU hose line in its catalogue: PU braided hose, PU pneumatic hose, PU coil hose and PU fire hose. The four names are the listing. What the names mean as formats is general knowledge, stated as such and not as a construction record for these builds: 'braided' in hose terminology names a build reinforced with a textile braid; 'pneumatic' names the air-duty format; 'coil' names a hose formed as a spiral — it has a page of its own on this site; 'fire' names the fire-duty entry, standing in the PU catalogue as the PVC fire hose stands in the layflat family. The company's data publishes no construction description for any of the four builds beyond their names.

General material background, stated the same way: polyurethane elastomers are generally chosen for abrasion resistance and flex life, and PU pneumatic tubing and hose are a standard sight on factory air systems for those reasons; PVC, this range's anchor material, is generally the lower-cost general-purpose choice. A buyer weighing a PU build against a PVC one is usually weighing wear and flex against price — but the weighing is done on quoted figures for named builds, and for this line the figures are enquiry facts, not published ones.

What an enquiry settles, build by build

• PU braided hose: bore range, working and burst pressure at your bore, temperature range, roll lengths and minimum order — none published for this build.
• PU pneumatic hose: the same figures, stated against your system's air pressure; if the duty is a fixed air line, the safety boundary on the PVC air hose page — flexible hose for the flexible sections, never rigid PVC pipe for air — is worth reading first.
• PU coil hose: bore, working length and retracted length, pressure at your bore and end fittings — the coil format's defining figures, covered on the PU coil hose page.
• PU fire hose: bore, pressure ratings, couplings and documentation — the same confirmation set as the PVC fire hose, whose page carries the fire-duty specification points.

One enquiry can cover the whole line if a programme is comparing builds: itemise each build by name with its duty — medium, pressure, bore, lengths and volumes — and ask for each to be answered on its own figures in the quotation. The listing itself establishes only that these four builds stand in the catalogue under these names; everything a purchase decision needs beyond that is written down per order.

Is PU hose better than PVC hose?

Neither, in general — they are different material families with different general tendencies: polyurethane leans to abrasion and flex, PVC to general-purpose economy. For a specific duty, compare quoted figures for the named builds on both sides; the PVC families' published data is on their pages.

Where are the PU line's specifications?

No specification tables for the PU line are published in the company's data. Each build's figures — bore, pressure, temperature, lengths, minimums — are confirmed per enquiry in the written quotation.

Can PU and PVC hose be combined in one order?

Itemise both in one enquiry, build by build and family by family, so the quotation states each line on its own figures. Combined shipment and packing for a mixed order are confirmed in the same document.