Our History
The story begins in 2000 – the Millennium.
Following many years running successful hose coupling distribution companies in europe, Chris Ford identified there was an emerging market for a UK based coupling distribution company that could offer;
• Comprehensive One Stop Shop for Industrial Hose couplings & associated products
• Consistently high-quality products
• The biggest and best stock levels in the business
• Competitive costs for distribution customers.
The Millennium Coupling Company ( MCC) opened in Preston in 2000 and immediately was a huge success, revolutionising UK distribution in this sector.
Vigorous sales growth continued and in 2006, a new company was formed by Chris and Andrew Edwards. Andrew was already a veteran in the business of importation and distribution of Industrial hose.
Century Hose joined the family.
There is a strong synergy between couplings and hose and customers across the UK and Europe embraced the opportunity to order all their requirements from one reliable and knowledgeable source. Having hose & coupling stocks in one location at Preston, Lancs made logistics very easy and offered customers significant savings on carriage costs.
In 2023 Millennium Couplings and Century Hose merged to simplify things for our customers. Now you can speak to one person about all your hose & couplings requirements, place one order and receive one invoice.
Everything else remains the same and twenty four years later we still work to the exact principles that we commenced with at the start of the Millennium.
Our People
Often said but we genuinely believe our team are the best in the business.
They have unrivalled levels of experience in products, applications and good old fashioned customer care.
Understanding the importance of quick and accurate response times on all aspects of modern trading, be it a technical export enquiry or a coil of hose that needs tracking. Plus they know a thing or two about industrial hose and couplings.
Product Quality
Behind each product is a team of experts; technical & product, logistics, procurement and application engineering.
Century Hose & Couplings work very closely with approved factories around the globe. In many instances product is manufactured to our unique and exacting specifications. This allows us the freedom to implement improvements in specification and performance as and when required.
This freedom proved invaluable following the Covid pandemic allowing Century to keep providing quality products at competitive prices when many others failed.
Our Product Range
Other companies may be proficient in industrial rubber hose or perhaps spiral PVC hose, others camlocks or leverlocks, and if you are lucky composites or stainless metallics?
Here at Century you can buy with confidence across all our product ranges.
Century Hose & Couplings is a hub for everything you could possibly need from an Industrial hose & couplings supplier. If it’s an assembly or a bespoke welded part, Century will work on your behalf with one of it’s sister R&G Fluid companies to ensure that you get a fantastic quality product at a good price in a timely manner.
This ability to inter-trade means we keep control of quality and costs, which means you can place your enquiries for something a bit different with the team at Century in absolute confidence.
No other UK hose & coupling distribution company comes close to what we can offer at Century Hose & Couplings.