Vulcax
  • All you need in rubber and silicone hoses
  • Tailor made hoses
  • We design your custom solution
  • Every type of rubber, all kind of constructions

We are manufacturers of all our products. From the simplest hoses, from straight or elbow sections, to the most complex parts. Reinforced with steel wire, fabrics, a combination of different materials inside and outside, custom constructions. Extruded profiles and hoses. All materials, adjusted to each application and need.

Sectors

VULCAX manufactures hoses, sleeves and elbows in rubber and silicone, with textile or spiral wire reinforcements and in short or even unitary series. Our products can be useful in several sectors. First equipment, custom or turnkey installations, industrial maintenance, industrial vehicle, vehicle and public works machinery, pumping equipment, mining, concrete industry, food industry, air conditioning installations ... All of them and many more value to solve a problem with a custom solution in rubber or silicone. Whenever it is necessary to conduct a more or less aggressive fluid, at higher or lower temperature or pressure, it will become necessary to use elbow hoses or rubber or silicone sleeves. If the consumption is appreciable, if the construction is standard and the application is within the usual range, you can and should go to standard hoses of one of the many manufacturers available in the market. Its quality and price are excellent. VULCAX can help you if the construction is special, the application is not standard, the quantity needed is small or even unitary. Where the catalogs of hoses, sleeves and elbows do not reach is where we work.

  • Anti-abrasive hoses
    Anti-abrasive hoses are used for the impulsion or aspiration of aggregates or abrasive particles. They have an inner layer of a material especially resistant to abrasion
  • Hoses for high temperatures
    In high temperature hoses, both the elastomer and the reinforcement fabric must withstand pressure, depression and design temperature without losing their properties
  • Railway hoses
    The railway requires very specific solutions, very high quality and very high performance in short or medium series without forgetting cost optimization
  • Hoses for the food industry
    The food industry has increasingly high levels of demand, legal and operational, solved with materials and processes in constant evolution and improvement
  • Hoses for trucks
    Trucks have a very strong spare market that we can complement in discontinued references, with supply problems, emergencies, design improvements ...
  • Sleeves for sleeve valves
    The sleeves for sleeve valve are standard spare parts that are optimized in cost and quality by adjusting materials and construction to the particular application
  • Hoses for peristaltic pumps
    Hoses for peristaltic pumps are usually comercial spare parts that can be improved both in cost and quality by optimizing them for each particular application
  • Rubber hoses for street sweepers
    The sweeping machines require an anti-abrasive hose, which works in depression and has a very high flexibility and lightness, without losing any resistance
  • Hoses for industrial vehicles
    The industrial vehicle uses the entire range of hoses with the particularity of working in the most aggressive and demanding conditions and the highest requirements.
Vulcax
  • One need, one hose
  • Maximum flexibility and strength
  • Reinvent your idea of hose

Product types

From the user's point of view, a hose is an element that conducts a fluid, flexibly joining two zones of a circuit. However for the manufacturer there are different types of hoses that differ by the type of construction or manufacturing method. At VULCAX we address all these types of hose with maximum flexibility and availability. We are able to manufacture the most complex hoses in short or even unitary series.

 

  • Rubber reductions
    The possibility of constructing a conduit that joins, on a flexible and robust form, mouths of different diameters saves important costs in special suitable solutions.
  • Armored hoses
    Armored hoses are a particular case of hose in which 2 spirals of steel wire are used, the first embedded in the rubber layers and the second one on the outside
  • Tailor made hoses
    We are manufacturers of all our products because we are capable of manufacturing short and even unitary series of hoses under a plane or sample
  • Elbow radiator hoses
    Elbow radiator hoses are the most versatile and economical way to drive fluids between different elements of a machine or vehicle, with different mouths and materials.
  • Rubber elbow and sleeves
    Rubber elbow and sleeves are manufactured from an extruded profile and formed on a tool with the appropriate shape so that, once vulcanized, it retains the shape
  • Flexible hoses
    Flexible hoses with wire are able to flex or withstand strong depressions without collapsing. They are multipurpose and can be built with any material
  • High pressure hoses
    High pressure water / air rubber hoses withstand up to 15 bars in working pressure through additional textile reinforcements and higher wall thicknesses
  • Extruded rubber profile
    The extruded rubber profiles can be manufactured in different materials and shapes with the only limit of the head size of our extruders of approximately 150 mm.
  • Water/air rubber hoses
    Rubber hoses for water-air are simple hoses with textile reinforcement that generally withstand up to 6 bars of pressure and no more than 120ºC in temperature
Vulcax
  • One need, one material
  • Long life, heavy duty
  • Premium material, maximum quality

Materials

Rubber is an elastic polymer that historically is obtained as a milky, latex emulsion, a product of the sap of several tree plants, the main one currently being Hevea Brasiliensis. Latex was already used since ancient times by South American Indians who acquired extensive knowledge in its use including vulcanization processes through organic agents that achieved similar results to the current ones.

The modern and industrial use of rubber begins when the sulfur vulcanization process is discovered in the middle of the 19th century. During the following decades its uses begin to spread generating a growing demand for latex. Already at the end of the century, alternative sources of supply from petroleum by-products are being developed. Synthetic rubber is discovered and it becomes industrial and highly strategic as the car develops and especially as World War I begins and access to latex becomes increasingly limited.

The discovery of the vulcanizing process revolutionized the world industry. The small spaces between moving parts in the increasingly complex machines of the 19th century could only be closed with leather parts soaked in oils. Its performance was very poor and limited to low pressures and temperatures. The life and performance of the machines was reduced by increasing steam leaks. Vulcanized rubber came to solve the problem in an ideal way. Pieces formed with exact measurements could be manufactured withstanding large deformations under stress and recovering their dimensions by eliminating stress. If we combine this with its durability and lack of adhesion to the metal elements we get the perfect material for all sealing needs. Engineers were able to develop increasingly precise and efficient machines.

In the following decades, many materials and processes are developed that respond to a wide range of needs. Durability, resistance to chemical agents, high or low temperatures, mechanical demands, wear resistance ... All these properties and many more find their answer in one of the many rubbers available today or today. EPDM, NBR, CR, Viton, Silicones, Fluorsilicones ... They are widely used materials today. Also natural rubber or NR (Natural Rubber). In fact, the use of natural rubber produced from latex remains a massively used material today. Its production is in the hands of the large multinationals in the sector and the large tire manufacturers that control extensive plantations in Asia and South America.

The rubber is definitely a mixture of polymers that, by adjusting its formulation, the nature of impurities and additives achieves different properties. This mixture of polymers in "crude" is vulcanized to obtain the definitive properties of durability, mechanical properties and resistance to the required external agents. Vulcanization is a process that in the presence of sulfur, accelerated or delayed by additives and through high pressures and temperatures produces bonds between polymer chains through bridges of chains of sulfur atoms. The vulcanization process is also achieved by other means such as organic peroxides that produce rubbers with better mechanical characteristics and greater durability. Other rubbers such as chloroprene (neoprene) are vulcanized in the presence of metal oxides. Silicones with acetoxysilane ... This process is irreversible, and rubber is therefore a thermostable material. In fact, rubber recycling is one of the great technological challenges today. If this advance the tire cemeteries do nothing but grow only content by expensive and limited crushing and reuse processes.

  • NBR hoses
    NBR, nitrile butadiene rubber, hoses are intended for the transport of hydrocarbons, oil... since this material is the one that best supports contact with them.
  • Neoprene rubber hoses
    Neoprene rubber hoses are specially designed to work in aggressive environments and with a wide temperature range
  • SBR hoses
    SBR, Styrene-Butadiene Rubber, rubber hoses have similar characteristics to natural rubber with a much more affordable and versatile material, at a reduced cost
  • Silicone hoses
    Silicone hoses manage to withstand demanding environments, temperatures up to 180ºC with difficult to match durability and at a very competitive price
  • Fluor-silicone hoses
    Fluor-silicone hoses withstand temperatures up to 250ºC and hostile environments without losing their functionality or durability
  • Viton hoses
    Natural rubber is the rubber that best supports abrasive fluids, so it is the option always chosen for the transport of aggregates
  • EPDM hoses
    EPDM, ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber,is the synthetic rubber most used thanks to its wide range of applications, its excellent strength, durability and quality / price ratio
  • Viton hoses
    VITON hoses, one of the most specific kind of fluorosilicone, are prepared to withstand the most demanding temperatures and environments
  • Rubber hoses
    Rubber hoses are the most versatile and economical way to transport a wide variety of fluids in a huge range of applications

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