A Brief History

Clevaflex was founded in 1964 to manufacture pre-heater carburetor tubes. As fuel-injected motors became the standard OEM engine, Clevaflex changed with the times and started to make tubing that is sold today in the automotive, industrial, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) markets. Clevaflex has the largest production in North America for wound tubing located in Cleveland, Ohio. Our products are manufactured using exclusively licensed technology and machinery from Westflex, GmbH in Gutersloh, Germany. There are two distinctly different manufacturing processes that allow for tubing to be either thermally bonded or mechanically interlocked. Both of these processes produce a tube that will not unwind like many other wrapped tubes.

The unique characteristics of our construction allows us to use our vast experience in constructing tubes to vary corrugation depth for strength, operate effectively under positive and negative pressures, and vary the elongation of the product, all to meet a customer specific application. This has lead to the development of some 30 to 40 products Clevaflex currently manufactures that range in size from ½ in. to 18 in. diameter. Clevaflex can manufacture tubes with up to five different plies of the material. Most applications use a combination of our standard materials: Aluminum, Fiberglass, Colored Mylar, Stainless Steel, Paper, Carbon Steel, and Copper