pinch valve design

Pinch Valve Design

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.

Pinch-Valve-Selection-Sheet-page

Pinch Valve Selection

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.

pinch valve questions

New! FAQ for Pinch Valves

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.

AKO UK premises

AKO UK Moves to New Premises

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.