Our Story - ARCFLEX HOSE & BELLOWS LIMITED

Sustaining Our Values & Achieving Our Potential

We are part of the Hydraflex Group, a recognised and established collection of businesses who specialise in producing metal hoses, hose lines, bellows and metal compensators for all industrial sectors.

The History of Arcflex

Artifex Flexible Tubes Limited was founded in 1971, in Surrey, England.
By utilising new and improved methods of engineering to produce convoluted metal hose, the family run business expanded considerably and quickly became a world leader in the manufacture and supply of stainless-steel hose, braid and hose assemblies.

Arcflex was founded in 1988.
Also a family run business, Arcflex Limited specialised in the manufacture of bespoke flexible hose assemblies, bellows and expansion joints for all industries. The company expanded over time, offering a complete package of integrated precision engineering, design, fabrication and testing.

The two UK companies merged in 2019 into a new purpose-built facility in Staffordshire, which increased the scope of products, engineering capabilities and services available, and traded as Arctrend Ltd, TA Arcflex and as part of the Rattay Group GmbH until August 2024.

In August 2024, The Hydraflex Group of Companies acquired the assets and the IP of Arctrend Ltd. and set a solid base for the future of the business through additional investment, and the introduction of a reformed philosophy.

With one of the largest and established facilities in its field within Europe, Arcflex Hose & Bellows Limited maintains the desire and aspiration to remain the ‘best of British’, designing and manufacturing a wide range of hose assemblies, bellows, expansion joints and pipe fabrications.