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STAINLESS STEEL CORRUGATED HOSE

Stainless steel hoses facilitate relative movement of the parts to be connected, adapt to thermal expansion, resist to high pressure and offer good corrosion resistance to a wide range of fluids.

Balinox is the corrugated stainless steel hose range by Balflex. Balinox stainless steel hoses are produced to Balflex specifications and to ISO, BS and DIN standards. It covers a wide variety of low to very high-pressure applications, in different grades of stainless steel, with different construction methods of the inner tube and of the reinforcement braid.

Balflex optimized the production of these hoses in order to assure the highest performance and the most extensive range of applications. The Balinox range of stainless steel hoses offer a very wide variety of materials and construction solutions in order to suit the particular problems to be addressed.

The Balinox range of metal hoses in this catalogue includes:

Annular Corrugated

	WA1	Wide pitch, annular corrugated, AISI 304 or 321 stainless steel hose, with one braid
	MA0, MA1, MA2	Medium pitch, annular corrugated, AISI 321 or 316 stainless steel hose, unbraided, with one or with two braids
	NA1, NA2	Narrow pitch, annular corrugated, AISI 321 or 316 stainless steel hose, with one or two braids

Helical Corrugated

	WH1	Wide pitch, helical corrugated, AISI 304 or 321 stainless steel hose, with one braid
	MH1, MH2	Medium pitch, helical corrugated, AISI 321 or 316 stainless steel hose, with one or two braids
	NDH2	Narrow pitch, double walled, helical corrugated, AISI 321 or 316 stainless steel hose, with two braids

Stripwound

Exhaust Hose

Polygonal, stripwound hose, in AISI 304 stainless steel or galvanized steel

 General Guidelines

Normally, the following aspects should be considered when choosing a stainless steel hose:
- the chemical reactivity of the product to be conveyed by the hose;
- the temperature of the product to be conveyed;
- the pressure of the product to be conveyed;
- the kind of flow of the product to be conveyed (pulsation or high velocity);
- the geometry of the parts to be connected and the degree of movement required, the bend radius and unsupported lengths;
- the environmental conditions.