Industrial Rubber Hose - Key Industrial

Introduction
ISO 9000 Registration
The industrial rubber hose shown in this catalog
is manufactured in the ALFAGOMMA ® factory in
Teramo, Italy (shown at right). This manufacturing
facility has earned registration under ISO 9001 -
ISO 14000 for constant high quality.
The ISO 9000 family of standards represents an
international consensus on good management
practices with the aim of ensuring that the
organization can time and time again deliver the
product or services that meet the customer's
quality requirements.
ISO 9001 is one of three quality assurance models
against which a plant's quality system can be
audited. The standard sets out the requirements
for an organization whose business processes
range all the way from design and development to
production.
New Technology
Kuriyama of America, Inc. North American
headquarters and main warehouse (shown at left),
is located at 360 E. State Parkway, Schaumburg,
Illinois. Kuriyama exclusively distributes Industrial
Rubber Hoses manufactured by ALFAGOMMA Spa.
In order to meet requirements for applications where
flexibility is an essential feature, ALFAGOMMA ® has
developed two innovative structures code-named 4+4 SP
& 4+4 SP PLUS. Four textile and four steel spirals are
used for the manufacture of all suction and delivery hoses.
The four textile spirals ensure size stability and pressure
control, while the four steel spirals make hoses vacuum
resistant and more flexible.
The 4+4 SP structure ensures a bend radius ranging
between four and five times the internal diameter. The
4+4 SP PLUS structure has been designed for those
hoses where the application requires a bend radius three
times the internal diameter.
The 4+4 SP and the 4+4 SP PLUS structures eliminate
the need for corrugated hoses to achieve a higher bend
radius. Hoses with the above structures are marked in the
catalog with the symbols shown at left.
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