Pinch Valves (also commonly nicknamed as squeeze valves, bladder valves, rubber hose valves, soft seated valves, hose valves or shut off valves), are made up of only 3 components.
These include the housing or body, end connections, and a rubber sleeve that fits inside.
Our new and innovative company presentation at Cadenas allows you to download many CAD formats and drawings for free.
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This information sheet should help users to determine which Pinch Valve to use for your application, but as always, if you need help or would like to discuss your application with our UK sales team please get in touch.
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How much compressed air (control pressure) is required to close a Pinch Valve?
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Continuous development has led to new improved sleeves / elastomer quality of AKO type 03SFLF + 03LF.
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AKO UK has passed the certification Type EL-Class I and Type EL Aseptic-Class I” of the European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group EHEDG for their new Air operated Pinch Valves type VMCE.
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We would like to draw your attention to the further developed EPDM HTEC sleeve quality.
These sleeves have been optimised in terms of performance and durability.
Have you ever thought about using a Pinch valve as a shut-off solution, what the advantages of a Pinch Valve are, or how many cycles they can be used before e.g. changing the sleeve?
We would like to give you some answers to these and many other questions.
We now provide downloaded CAD diagrams of our pinch valve range.
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2013 saw the move to a newer, bigger premises for AKO UK.
We now have even more space to stock our Pinch Valve products and continue to hold the largest Pinch Valve stock in the UK. With brand new offices and a large meeting room, we are pleased to welcome customers to our new building.
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