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In 1973 Hoke GmbH was established as an independent agency in Germany. The central office was located in Frankfurt, near the airport and highly accessible to the German chemical industry.
  Hoke Germany has been able to offer the strength of access to both a large European based inventory and the Hoke direct technical support team plus the financial strength of CIRCOR. On the sales front, a focussed Hoke sales team has the additional support of a network of international sales teams.
  For the German market, Hoke GmbH developed its own inventory tuned to local customer needs, and also introduced highly valued vendor stocking programs. The company added the facility for kitting of several components and simple assembly work.
The stringent demands of the German chemical industry for quality, safety and practicality attracted many users to Hoke’s higher quality product standards and services for a wide variety of applications.
  Gyrolok fittings proved to be especially appealing. Their leak-tight sealing characteristics and suitability for both low and high pressure applications of up to 14500 psig (1000 bar), for use in toxic applications or in dangerous goods such as hydrogen storage containers up to 3625 psig (250 bar), have led to a steadily growing market share for Hoke products.

  Added to this, the complete service offered by Hoke Germany was rounded out by offering non-Hoke product availability where needed in order to provide customers with complete one-stop shopping for their wider processing plant needs.
  The company made available the certification standards called for in Germany with various test certificates.These also played a large part in guaranteeing that Hoke Germany continued to receive further increasing market shares.
  These include, for example, the TA Luft apparatus certificate which certifies the leak-tightness of the

DynaPak or of the Delta Seal insulation in valves, the DIN< certificates from 2.2 to 3.1b and the DVGW tests for fittings.
  A notable addition to this list was the testing of Hoke ball valves to the BAM standard for cars that run on natural gas. This led to Hoke GmbH scoring an important success in this automotive market of the future; with use of Gyrolok fittings on natural gas storage containers in German filling stations and in cars. In addition, GO PR2 pressure regulators and Hoke ball valves were also used.
  Customers across the chemical industry and other sectors have come to trust Hoke/CIRCOR products to meet their high quality standards. This is impressively confirmed by contracts with companies such as BASF AG, Hüls AG, Infracor, Dow and Messer Griesheim.

  In specific end uses such as analysis, customers can use the whole CIRCOR range of products, including Gyrolok fittings, ball valves with or without actuators, relief valves, GO pressure regulators or even Circle Seal check valves.
  Being able to offer all these products to the German market has been a recipe for success. The variety of the CIRCOR product range, the safety of use and the full service offered have ensured the success of Hoke Germany.

 

 
YOUR CONTACTS
CIRCOR Instrumentation Ltd 1-3 Bouverie Road,
Harrow, Middx
HA1 4HB,
UK
Tel +44 (0)20 8423 0113
Fax +44 (0)20 8423 5933 circor@circor.co.uk
CIRCOR Instrumentation Ltd Suite 1, Ground Floor, McNeill Business Centre, Greenbank Crescent, East Tullos, Aberdeen AB12 3BG
Tel +44 (0)1224 879222
Fax +44 (0)1224 879988 circor@circor.co.uk
Hoke GmbH
Hanauer Landstrasse 11-13,
D-60314
Frankfurt/Main,
Germany
Tel +49 69 4050090
Fax +49 69 40500940 Hokegmbh@aol.com
Circle Seal Controls & GO Circle Seal Contol Inc,
2301 Wardlow Circle,
P.O. Box 3300, Corona, California 91718, USA
Tel +1 909 270 6200
Fax +1 909 270 6201 mktgsvcs@circle-seal.com
Hoke Incorporated
405 Centura Court, Spartanburg,
SC 29303,
USA
Tel +1 864 574 7966
Fax +1 864 595 5200 Cowens@circle-seal.com
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