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Life Sciences Hoses

Why Choose Caltrol?

Timely, Responsive Support

Timely, Responsive Support

Choosing the right hose for your application is crucial. You have many factors to consider when making your selection, things like contact material, weight, temperature, pressure, flexibility and more. Mistakes made when selecting a hose can lead to hose failures. Hose failures can potentially lead to costly consequences, like FDA Audits, production delays and shutdowns. Facing all these obstacles, it’s important that you choose a partner that can help you to avoid risks and maximize results. Caltrol is that partner. Our team can provide you with timely, responsive support when you need it most.
Safe, Reliable Products and Expertise

Safe, Reliable Products and Expertise

Caltrol team members have many years of expertise in assisting customers with hose selection. When you buy hoses from us, you can relax knowing that:
  • You’ve chosen the correct product for your application,
  • You’re within compliance, with all product certifications being correct and in order,
  • The product you’ve chosen is safe and reliable, and
  • A Caltrol expert will be there to assist you as a trusted partner should any issues arise.
Inventory, Availability, and Speed

Inventory, Availability, and Speed

We keep a large stock of inventory on hand and we only choose only the manufacturers that are most dedicated to helping us serve the best interests of our customers. Doing so ensures that we stock what you need and that we can get it to you quickly.
Our average lead time is between four and ten weeks.
24-hour turnaround time available on a case by case basis. Please contact us with your urgent requests.
Convenience

Convenience

We are firm believers in preventative maintenance. We encourage it and we assist our customers with it as often as we can.  However, when unforeseen circumstances threaten to derail your efforts, we focus on making the process to put you back on the right path as simple and easy as possible. Simply fill out the form below  as soon as you know you need assistance. You can also give us a call. We’re here for you! 
Quote + Hose Selector Form
Holistic Approach

Holistic Approach

Choosing Caltrol as your supplier for sanitary hoses means you’ve chosen a partner with a very diverse portfolio and a great deal of expertise. As such, we take a holistic approach to meeting your needs. In addition to hoses, we also offer gaskets gauges, stainless steel manifolds, tanks, and pumps. We can help with design when required, and we are capable of handling advanced controls for a facility. We consider it a part of our job to ask questions, observe and fully understand your process needs so that we can advise you on the best course of action.
Integrity, Always
Beyond Business

Integrity, Always

Choosing a supplier can be difficult. We know and understand that you have many options when searching for solutions providers. Should you choose us, know that you are gaining more than a supplier, you are gaining a trusted business partner. Caltrol operates with integrity, always. If a mistake is made or an issue arises, we will partner with you to resolve it. Our goal is to see you succeed. When you succeed, we succeed, and we have dedicated our business culture to upholding this idea. We look forward to partnering with you!

Our Manufacturers

Ace Sanitary

COUPLING EXPERTISE WITH SPEED & SIMPLICITY.™
Ace Sanitary

COUPLING EXPERTISE WITH SPEED & SIMPLICITY.™

Ace Sanitary is a manufacturer and supplier of premium flexible hose products for the sanitary and ultra-pure manufacturing markets. Through innovation and technology, Ace Sanitary has secured fitting technology patents that set them apart from all other sanitary flexible product manufacturers. Ace focuses on bringing the highest quality product, combined with outstanding customer service and innovative thinking to the sanitary and ultra-pure manufacturers' doorstep. 

Ace services the Food, Beverage and Dairy, Cosmetic, Pharmaceutical and Bio-tech manufacturing markets with FDA-Compliant products. They specialize in understanding the processes of customers and providing proven-engineered solutions to meet those applications.  The Ace Flex-Rite and Seal-Rite sanitary hose products are specifically designed to meet the needs of these industries.

St. Gobain
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics offers premium quality tubing, hoses, and fittings that fulfill a range of demanding certifications, performance, and safety standards. Saint-Gobain hoses and fittings are flexible for operations, technical service, formulating and multi-material expertise. 

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, Process Systems business unit has a long-established history and reputation for providing innovative product solutions – flexible tubing, gaskets & seals, hoses & fittings and high purity chemical valves, pumps & manifolds – through a broad range of customized materials and capabilities. Saint-Gobain helps customers achieve safety, performance and brand assurance in a variety of markets and applications from aircraft interior components to food & beverage processing to semiconductor chemical transfer to industrial fluid handling systems.
Purity in Fluid Flow Systems®
AdvantaPure

Purity in Fluid Flow Systems®

AdvantaPure®, the high purity products division of NewAge® Industries, is designed to anticipate and satisfy the evolving needs of the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing industries. AdvantaPure is ISO 9001:2015 certified, and many of their products meet and exceed USP Class VI, FDA, ISO, NSF, 3-A, and European Pharmacopoeia standards. All products are manufactured, stored, and shipped using the cleanest methods possible to ensure unsurpassed product purity for the customer.

As an extended family of people working together, the company's goal is to bring you excellence in both service and products. Each AdvantaPure Teamt – from manufacturing and warehouse to customer service and engineering, and from R&D and quality to IT and purchasing – is dedicated to giving you pure products that fulfill your application's requirements.

AceSanitary
Saint-Gobain
AdvantaPure

Products, Specs, and Certifications

Need a Quote? Have questions about hoses or need help with your next project? Call Caltrol and let one of our subject matter experts help! We are here for you!
Call now or fill out the form below to speak with a Caltrol Hose Expert!
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Documentation

We understand the importance of proper documentation for each hose in operation within your facility. That's why every Caltrol hose has documentation that includes:
  • Material certification for hose
  • Material certification for end connections
  • Hose log data
  • Hose release data
  • Pressure test data (photo proof). 
Depending on the purchase date of your hoses, Caltrol can supply up to 35 years of historical data. 

Documentation Resources

Sample Certifications

Saint Gobain and Ace Sanitary Samples

Saint Gobain Chemical Resistance Chart

FAQs

Certificates are available by providing either a purchase order number or FC Serial Number.  Certifications are emailed within 24 hours of a request.
Yes! Caltrol can assist with hose selection based if the following information is provided:
  • What is going through the hose; pressure, temperature, is the hose steamed, autoclaved and/or subject to CIP ​
Please fill out our Hose Selection form for help with spcification:
Hose Specification Form


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Yes, Caltrol can provide a factory analysis of why a hose failed.  It is necessary to provide detailed information regarding the application and document that the hose being returned is free from contaminants.​
Caltrol 's ability to supply hoses in a specific time period is predicated upon  the various manufacturers represented by Caltrol and their ability to produce hose products.  If it  is possible to select hose products from various suppliers, specific dates can be met. ​
Yes, we can supply silicone hoses. Please use our Hose Specification form for assistance:
Hose Specification Form
Normally Caltrol can meet delivery by fabricating hoses from inventory located at the Caltrol facility in Livermore, CA.  In the event the hose requested is not in inventory Caltrol relies on manufacturers. 

Since, we have agreements with multiple suppliers it is usually possible to meet delivery dates.  We seek to meet delivery dates by working with customers to determine hose requirements several months in advance of due dates.  This information enables inventory levels to be increased to meet demand​
Etching is available.  All hoses from Caltrol are etched with a serial number​.
Colored hoses are available.  Note that lead times for colored hoses are typically longer that non-colored products.  Also, colored hoses are generally higher in cost.​
Yes. All hoses supplied by Caltrol are serialized.  The serial number enables us to access our hose data base.  Data includes the manufacturing date , hose type, lot and heat numbers, purchase order number, and pressure test information​.
Silicone hoses are Class VI tested.  Most Teflon hoses are also VI tested.  ​