Extra-Flexible Chloro-Butyl Food S&D Hose: T5707HF Product Spotlight

T5707HF Extra-Flexible Chloro-Butyl Food S&D HoseHighly Flexible Food Suction HoseFlexible and safe, this hose handles milk, wine, and juices cleanly in food or dairy tasks, sterilisable with strong suction performance.

Transferring high-purity consumables, viscous dairy products, and high-proof spirits demands an uncompromising fluid transfer line. Food processing facilities and distilleries frequently battle heavy, stiff hoses that kink during tank changeovers or impart unwanted rubbery off-flavours into delicate media. The T5707HF Extra-Flexible Food S&D HoseHighly Flexible Food Suction HoseFlexible and safe, this hose handles milk, wine, and juices cleanly in food or dairy tasks, sterilisable with strong suction performance. solves these challenges with a unique, patented mandrel-built construction engineered for maximum manoeuvrability without sacrificing pressure integrity or food hygiene.

Built with an ultra-smooth, mirror-finish white chloro-butyl (IIR) rubber tube, high-tensile textile plies, embedded steel wire helix, and a vegetable fat-resistant blue synthetic cover, the T5707HF provides a constant 10 bar working pressure across its entire size range (19 mm to 102 mm inside diameter). Free from phthalates, BPA, and bisphenol A, this hose is certified for everything from municipal drinking water to 98% pure alcohol and fatty dairy products.

Unrivalled Flexibility Meets High Tensile Strength

Traditional food-grade suction hoses with heavy wall gauges often suffer from excessive bend stiffness, causing operator fatigue and putting mechanical strain on vessel butterfly valves. The patented design of the T5707HF delivers outstanding flexibility while maintaining structural rigidity under full vacuum for sizes up to and including 2" inner diameter(up to 9.18 mH₂O).

During rigorous mechanical testing, the T5707HF demonstrated the ability to withstand a continuous tensile pulling force of 4,000 N (approximately 400 kg) with only a 3.5% temporary diameter reduction, instantly recovering its circular profile once tension is released. This mechanical resilience prevents cross-sectional ovalisation and flow restriction when operators pull long hose runs across busy dairy or brewery floors.

Purity First: The White Chloro-Butyl (IIR) Liner

The core of the T5707HF is its mirror-smooth, food-quality white IIR (chloro-butyl) rubber tube. Chloro-butyl rubber is renowned in high-purity process engineering for its exceptionally low gas permeability, zero taste taint, and odourless characteristics. Unlike standard synthetic elastomers that deteriorate when exposed to elevated alcohol concentrations or organic fats, this liner handles the complete culinary spectrum:

• High-Proof Spirits & Brewing: Fully compliant for high-concentration alcohol transfer up to 98% ABV, making it ideal for craft distilleries, gin rectifying, wine racking, cider pressing, and beer cellar handling.
• Dairy & Fatty Foods: Certified for milk, yoghurt, liquid egg, and edible plant oils. The non-porous surface resists bacterial adhesion and prevents lipid absorption.
• Potable Water Approved: Certified to WRAS guidelines, ensuring zero chemical leaching into drinking water supplies.
• Full European & FDA Compliance: Fully certified to FDA 21 CFR 177.2600 (Part E for aqueous foods), BfR XXI Category 2, Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004, and EU 2023/2006. It satisfies all EU Regulation 10/2011 food simulant migrations:
  • Simulant A: Hydrophilic foodstuffs
  • Simulant B: Acidic foods with pH < 4.5 (fruit juices, purées)
  • Simulant C: Alcoholic beverages up to 20%
  • Simulant D1: Alcoholic beverages > 20% and oil-in-water emulsions
  • Simulant D2: Foods with free vegetable and animal fats on the surface

Key Applications Across the Food & Beverage Industry

Thanks to its versatile white chloro-butyl (IIR) liner, exceptional bend radius, and wide regulatory compliance, the T5707HFHighly Flexible Food Suction HoseFlexible and safe, this hose handles milk, wine, and juices cleanly in food or dairy tasks, sterilisable with strong suction performance. provides a single, dependable solution across multiple processing sectors:

• Commercial Distilleries & High-Proof Spirits: Engineered for transferring neutral grain spirits (NGS), high-proof ethanol, gin, rum, and liqueurs up to 98% ABV. Its dense IIR liner ensures zero flavour scalping, preventing colour or taste contamination between spirit batches.
• Dairies & Creameries: Ideal for raw milk collection from road tankers, cream separation lines, and viscous yoghurt processing. The inner tube resists organic milk fats and lactic acids, while the non-stick surface prevents protein build-up.
• Breweries, Wineries & Cider Mills: Perfect for delicate barrel racking, wine filtration, sweet wort transfer, and bright beer discharge. Its near-zero gas permeability protects carbonated and oxygen-sensitive beverages from oxidation.
• Acidic Fruit Juices & Purées: Certified to EU Simulant B standards for handling low-pH liquids (pH < 4.5), including citrus juices, berry purées, vinegar, and liquid sugar concentrates without tube pitting.
• Edible Oils & Fatty Foods: Fully compliant with EU Simulant D2 requirements for transferring vegetable oils, olive oil, liquid butterfat, mayonnaise, dressings, and culinary liquid egg.
• Potable Drinking Water Supplies: WRAS approved and manufactured without phthalates or BPA, making it suitable for municipal water mains bypasses, marine ship-to-shore fresh water delivery, and commercial food manufacturing supply lines.
• High-Temperature CIP & SIP Circuits: Serves as a heavy-duty jumper hose capable of withstanding daily chemical Clean-in-Place flushes and steam sterilisation runs up to +130°C for distillery and food processing plant hygiene.

Built for Thermal Sanitation & Cellar Durability

Hygiene protocols in commercial food facilities require aggressive cleaning regimes. The T5707HF operates across a continuous temperature range of -20°C to +90°C, and can undergo routine steam sterilisation (SIP) cycles up to +130°C for up to 30 minutes.

Externally, the hose features an ozone-, weather-, and abrasion-resistant smooth blue rubber cover. Formulated specifically to resist contact with animal fats, vegetable oils, and harsh sanitising washdown detergents, the outer cover protects the textile reinforcement plies from moisture ingress and delamination, even when dragged across wet, abrasive non-slip quarry tiles or resin floors.

With an engineered 3:1 safety ratio (10 bar working pressure / 30 bar burst pressure), the T5707HF safely absorbs hydraulic shock loads and pressure spikes from positive displacement and rotary lobe pumps.

T5707HF Technical Specifications

Below are the factory technical specifications across the standard metric sizing range:

Recommended Sanitary Connections

To preserve biological safety and prevent internal turbulence, the T5707HF must be assembled with crevice-free hygienic fittings. We recommend pairing this hose with:

• Tri-Clamp Ferrules (BS 4825-3 / ASME BPE): The premier connection for craft breweries, dairies, and pharmaceutical suites, offering rapid tool-free disassembly for hygiene inspection.
• RJT & DIN 11851 Couplings: Threaded hygienic unions suited for high-pressure transfer lines and heavy processing manifolds.
• Swaged 316L Stainless Steel Ferrules: High-integrity crimped ferrules that provide an entirely flush internal transition between the hose liner and fitting tail, eliminating microbial "bug traps".

Summary

The T5707HF Chloro-Butyl Food S&D HoseHighly Flexible Food Suction HoseFlexible and safe, this hose handles milk, wine, and juices cleanly in food or dairy tasks, sterilisable with strong suction performance. delivers an ideal combination of mechanical strength, exceptional bend flexibility, and comprehensive food contact compliance. Whether pumping 98% pure neutral grain spirit in a commercial distillery, handling warm yoghurt in a dairy facility, or transferring drinking water under strict WRAS guidelines, it provides consistent performance, zero flavour taint, and long service life. For cut lengths, bespoke swaged assemblies, or technical assistance, contact our fluid transfer team today at sales@megaflex.co.uk.