When is the best time to involve SCHIEMA in a hose assembly or custom solution?

SCHIEMA stands out through expertise, availability and stock. The main differences:

• a personal approach: you deal with people who understand your application
• many years of experience with hoses, couplings and seals, enabling SCHIEMA to give targeted advice based on your application
• availability, including after five o'clock
• its own hose line, Flexcited, developed from practical experience
• many products available from stock, with fast delivery
• in-house processing, such as cutting, punching and bonding rubber and assembling hoses

Not every rubber product needs to be processed; many products are supplied ready to use. For custom work, SCHIEMA has several cutting plotters that cut rubber to an accuracy of hundredths of a millimetre. Rubber can also be punched and bonded, and SCHIEMA offers services including vulcanisation, extrusion and moulding.

An example is a large sealing ring. SCHIEMA buys rubber as a semi-finished product on rolls, for example in lengths of 50 metres and with a thickness of 35 to 40 millimetres. Based on the required inside and outside diameters, a ring is made from this and bonded into a finished product.

Yes, in many cases. Time pressure is common in practice: a customer calls on a Thursday afternoon, for example, and needs the hoses at seven the next morning. Because SCHIEMA supplies many items from stock and fits couplings to hoses in-house, assemblies can often be made the same day, ready that evening or the following morning.

SCHIEMA can also be reached after five o'clock and works outside regular hours when needed. Contact us directly in urgent cases so that the options can be reviewed straight away.

Because the right hose always depends on the application. A common misconception is that a hose is just a hose: after all, they are often black and made of rubber. In reality, hoses differ considerably in lining, reinforcement, pressure resistance and temperature range.

That is why SCHIEMA does not rely on assumptions, but asks further: what is the medium, what is the temperature, what is the pressure and how will the hose be used? A simple water hose, for example, is not suitable for aggressive or hydrocarbon-containing residues, as these would attack the hose. By asking the right questions up front, you get a hose that suits your application and lasts longer from the start.