The origins of ELAFLEX date back to 1923. Our family company developed from a technical distributor to the Navy and shipyards to an internationally leading specialist in refuelling. ELAFLEX - Gummi Ehlers GmbH with its profit centers SAT (hose and fittings department) and ERV (expansion joints department) supplies hose assemblies, rubber expansion joints and fittings for suction and discharge of fuels, chemical products and other liquids. ELAFLEX - Gummi Ehlers GmbH is a leading manufacturer supplying aircraft refuelling hoses and Rubber Expansion Joints throughout the world. ELAFLEX HIBY Tanktechnik GmbH & Co. KG (EHT) brings together the ZVA nozzle, petrol pump hose and refuelling accessories. In recognition of the importance attached to this market EHT is a partnership between ELAFLEX and the producer of the nozzles HIBY. Our range of automatic nozzles under the brand name of ZVA was developed at the beginning of the '60s together with the SLIMLINE and C 16 petrol pump hoses. EHT is active world wide and indeed is one of the world market leaders in nozzles and petrol pump hoses especially in the vapour recovery sector (Stage II). Refuelling calls for the highest standards of safety. ELAFLEX has the goal to meet all the challenges in this field by providing "intelligent solutions" together with our proven outstanding quality. ELAFLEX has a well equipped Research and Development department to meet this goal. The cooperation with a large number of standards bodies and its close contact to the customer guarantees that ELAFLEX will always be "state of the art".
Business Sector:	refuelling equipment
Export Ratio:	> 60%
No. of Employees (ELAFLEX Hamburg):	> 120
Produkte:	automatic dispensing nozzles (ZVA Slimline 2, ZVA Slimline 2 GR...) non-automatic dispensing nozzles (ZV 19, ZVF 40, ZV 500...) Safety Breaks (SSB 16, CSB 21...) petrol pump hoses (SLIMLINE, C 16, COAX...) aircraft refuelling hoses (YELLOW BAND... / NEON...) tanker lorry hoses (YELLOW BAND, HD, TW, LTW...) chemical hoses (UTS, UTL, ELAFLON PLUS FEP...) PAL chemical hoses (POLYPAL PLUS, TECNOPAL...) all current hose fittings tank- and pipe fittings (original TW Quick Couplings...) safety hose clamps (SPANNLOC, SPANNFIX) hose assemblies Rubber Expansion Joints (ERV YELLOW / RED / ROTEX...) Dry Disconnect Couplings (DDC Mann Tek)
Production:	A major part of the ELAFLEX product range are our own developments protected by copyright or patents. Production of components for EHT, assembly of hose / fittings, assembly of Rubber Expansion Joints and logistics by ELAFLEX Hamburg. Production or nozzles and accessories by ELAFLEX HIBY, branch Plettenberg. Production of hoses by ContiTech Fluid, Korbach. Production of bellows for Rubber Expansion Joints by ContiTech Luftfedersysteme, Hannover. Production of DDC- Dry Disconnect Couplings by Mann Tek, Sweden.
Quality Assurance	Quality management system ISO 9001 by Germanischer Lloyd, approval no. QS - 273 HH. Approval according European Pressure Equipment Directive 97/23/EC for hose assemblies and rubber expansion joints, categories I and II. Certificate No. 77 314-10 HH by Germanischer Lloyd (CE 0098). Quality assurance concept according AQAP-2130 for supplies to NATO-forces, approval no. 9779/01 VG 95958 (ERV rubber expansion joints), approval no. 9779/01 VG 95922 (hoses). Certification of the ELAFLEX products according to russian standard "GOST R".
Distribution:	by authorized distributors, agents and subsidiaries. Original Equipment Manufacturers normally are supplied directly by ELAFLEX Hamburg or our subsidiaries.