PVC hose is a well-known products and has been widely used in all of the industries. With the develop of time, environment protecting and safe becomes more important to human beings. Therefore, many industries and companies take a series of measures to reform. PVC already can’t meet the requirements of users, further appears PU suction hose.
Why this happened? Let’s talk about this question next.
First let’s talk about the PVC hose. It belongs to the hard plastic from the material. Thus factory has to increase the voltage of plasticizer to achieve the softness that user requires. But the PVC hose with plasticizer can’t achieve the food grade. Besides, it’s strictly forbade by the government. Therefore, the applications for user will be limited.
As for the PU suction hose, it absorb nontoxic, odourless, environment protecting and soft material. It have excellent flexibility and softness without adding plasticizer in the production. Therefore, PU suction hose becomes more and more popular in food industries.
Refer to food industry, we have to mention the food safety. After solving the food and cloth problem, people begin to focus on the food safety and quality. This requires food industries absorb food grade equipment in the production. If you use PVC hose to transfer food, there will be harmful matters enter the food and cause serious result. It’s not only violate the moral standard, but also illegal. Therefore, more and more food factories choose PU hose, though it’s much expensive than PVC hose.
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