ELAFLEX HIBY GmbH & Co. KG

ELAFLEX HIBY GmbH and Co. KG belongs to the ELAFLEX Group, an independent, family-owned maker of equipment for handling gases and fluids. The group has members around the world. Several of them work in aviation fuel handling. The phone number given is +49 40 540 005 0.

The group lists its members. Aljac is the aviation ground fuelling specialist. A Nordic and Baltic member offers refuelling, sampling and filtration products for aviation fuel, with brands such as Aljac, Eaton's Carter, Parker Velcon and Gammon. Dantec makes composite hoses. ditec and REIFLEXA make rubber expansion joints. ELAFLEX makes hoses, couplings and nozzles. MannTek makes dry and breakaway couplings. Oasis makes high-pressure couplings and valves. SGB makes leak detectors.

The about page lists the group principles. These are independence, continuity, innovation, customer focus, global presence, expansion and discretion. The group says it grows by organic means and some strategic purchases.

The history starts in 1913, when Albert Hiby opened a bronze foundry in Plettenberg, Germany. In 1923 Karl M.C. Ehlers started a technical trading company in Hamburg. Hiby received a patent for easy-to-operate petrol valves in 1951. In 1952 Gummi Ehlers GmbH was founded in Hamburg as a sister company.

Aviation is one field among many, next to industrial and marine uses. The site has a group page and links to each member company.