Marine Hose Service Life Estimation

Fairtex provides inner liner rubber material testing for hoses to verify the aging rates while in service at your terminal. This would complement any burst test data you obtain at site and help corroborate other residual service life estimates.

To further optimise asset life we can recommend improvements to long term storage, handling, refurbishment and repair.

Fairtex through this services provides an impartial service life estimate, independent of the manufacturer and not influenced by the incentive of future marine hose demand.

Service Life Risk Assessment

Fairtex also provides service life risk assessment for clients' who wish to extend the service life of their marine hoses in service, we can perform a detailed risk assessment to highlight the potential risks associated with the proposed life extension.

Fairtex Service Life Risk Assessment Helps to Address the Following

• Identify failure modes & develop them into a set of representative risk scenarios.


• Identify root causes, current risk control measures and suggest additional controls.


• Examine the consequences of each scenario.


• Estimate the probability of each failure mode.


• Highlight the potential risks associated with the proposed life extension.


• Identify and assess any risk reduction measures and discuss practicalities.


• Recommend whether to extend the service life or not.