MANUFACTURE

Halyard hoses use carefully controlled Lining and Cover rubber with a wide selection of reinforcements in carefully designed layers to ensure that pressure, temperature and other operating requirements are met. Each layer is wound carefully, by hand, onto slowly rotating mandrels up to 12 metres long. Wire and tyre cord reinforcements are added between layers, as each hose builds gradually to a carefully considered specification. Organic rubbers use carbon based long chain monomers bonded by heat, and specialised cross linking agents to form a tough, durable product tailored for its environment and application.

Alternatively, we use a wide range of silicon, created from silica and chemically modified to produce silicon hoses which take very much higher temperatures than traditional neoprene and nitrile rubber hoses. Silicon hoses are also used where looks count – for instance in the engine room of an expensive powerboat.

Finished products are heat cured under pressure before being removed from their mandrels, and pass inspection prior to despatch. Customers names and logos are added as required, together with Lloyds, ISO, BS, and SAE approvals where relevant.