On 30 June 2024, our long-term supplier of dual contained chemical dosing hose, Colex, closed down their UK operations. The entire operation has been bought out by Copely, a Leicester-based company with over 50 years’ experience in the hose market. Over the last few months, while this transition has been taking place, we have been […]

Over 800m of PF Detect (25mm LDPE) has recently been installed at North Pine Dam Water Treatment Plant, located north of Brisbane, Queensland. The plant, which turns raw water into drinking water, treats up to 250 megalitres of water daily. The purpose of the upgrade project was to provide double containment to an ammonia injection […]

The Water Treatment division of FT Pipeline Systems (FTPS) was delighted to be contacted by an existing client, Diamond Fabrications, regarding the installation of our flexible, dual contained chemical dosing hose into a new build beverage can manufacturing facility. A former brownfield site in Peterborough was the location for the £60 million development. The state-of-the-art […]

Our flagship chemical dosing hose products, PF Detect and Protectaflex, offer two massive advantages over traditional rigid systems: Built-in leak detection comes as standard triggering an alarm the moment a leak arises, instantly shutting down the line, and containing any escaped chemicals in the outer pipe jacket – thereby eliminating the risk of environmental damage. […]

In recent years, chemical dosing working pressures have steadily increased to the extent that they have doubled from 2-3 bar to 4-6 bar over the past ten years. In addition to that, the UK is consistently experiencing longer, hotter periods with higher temperatures becoming more normal. More installations of our flexible chemical dosing hose Protectaflex […]

Water Treatment Division Eases Workload with Purple Hose For many years, it has been standard practice to attach purple braiding to dosing hose after installation to show that chemicals are passing through the pipe. In a bid to help streamline your operations, we are delighted to announce that we can now manufacture our flexible hose […]