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A group-wide and international campaign has recently been launched focusing on the importance of food-compliant high-tech hoses in the food industry. The new Masterflex Group campaign aims to make customers aware of hazards that can arise from non-food compliant hoses and how these hazards can be minimized by using Masterflex Group hose solutions. The use of non-food compliant hoses can lead to serious health risks for consumers. For this reason, food compliant hoses are critical to the food industry. Hoses promote many great moments and encounter people in many everyday situations without them knowing it. Masterflex Group has a wide range of food compliant hoses specifically designed for use in food production. The campaign will be available on different platforms and in different languages to reach customers and prospects around the world.

From now on, the food hose Master-PUR Flat Food is available exclusively as an antistatic version (marked with the suffix ”A”). ”We decided to do this because this hose was mostly used to transport powders or dusts,” says Product Manager Torsten Gebhardt. The production process has also been adapted: The hose is now glued (and not welded as before). In the process, a thermoplastic melt made of the same material as the film is applied to the ends to be welded - and the film is pressed. ”You can think of it as gluing with a plastic,” says Gebhardt. The advantage: the films are much more tear-resistant and the weld seams last longer. Smooth, antistatic, tranparant The inner smoothness of the hose has also been improved. Like its predecessor, the Master-PUR Flat Food A is made of polurethane (PUR). However, a permanent antistatic agent has now been added, which is even more stable in the long term than conventional antistatic agents. The new hose conforms to EU Regulation No. 10/2011 and is approved for food category E (dry food). In the current version, the transparency of the product

Novoplast Schlauchtechnik has a European patent for a novel process for the extrusion of PE-UHMW and can now produce PE-UHMW hoses as continuous rolls. Novoplast Schlauchtechnik has been granted a European patent for a novel process for manufacturing extruded hoses from the high-performance polymer PE-UHMW - making it the only company on the market that can and is allowed to produce and process hoses as continuous rolls of PE-UHMW. Novoplast Schlauchtechnik, part of the Masterflex Group, processes the PE-UHMW developed by Japanese company Mitsui Chemicals (German distributor: Dreyplas GmbH) as granules (brand name: LUBMER). “Due to its high molecular mass and the resulting viscosity, PE-UHMW previously required complex mechanical processing”, explains Niels Mitzlaff, Director of R&D Tubing at Novoplast Schlauchtechnik. The new material in combination with the now patented process enables the plastic molding compound to be formed by extrusion, making continuous hose extrusion and thus endless production possible. “The Dreyplas company provided us with very good technical support and trial materials, especially