Sanitary Elbows and Bends
45, 90 and 180 degree bends in clamped, welded and threaded versions, including long radius bends for pumped product.
All 9 Elbows in the Catalogue
BPE Sanitary 180 Degree Clamp U Type Elbow
Sanitary Stainless Steel 180° U-Type Welded Elbow Bend for Food Processing Systems
Sanitary Stainless Steel 45 Degree Tri-Clamped Elbow Bend for Food Processing Systems
Stainless Steel 90 Degree Clamp Elbow for Food Processing Systems
Sanitary 45 Degree Clamp-Weld Elbow for Food Processing Systems
Sanitary Stainless Steel 90 Degree Elbow Union Connected for Food Processing Systems
Sanitary Stainless Steel Butt-Weld 45 Degree Short Bend for Hygienic Fluid Systems
Sanitary Stainless Steel 90 Degree Welded Short Elbow for Food Processing Systems
Stainless Steel Sanitary Welded Elbow Long 90° Bend for Food Processing Pipelines
What Goes Wrong Without the Right Elbow
- Tight radius bends that shear delicate product and erode on abrasive slurries
- Mitred elbows welded on site with internal beads that hold soil
- Return bends improvised from two 90s and a straight tube
Who Specifies This Category
- Fabricators routing hygienic pipework around plant obstructions
- Processors moving shear sensitive product such as cultured dairy or fruit preparations
- Anyone building a drainable line that must be pitched correctly
What You Get From Our Range
- 45, 90, 180 degree and long radius bends from stock dimensions
- Clamped, butt-weld, threaded and male end versions of the same angles
- Double bend and line splitter bodies for tight equipment layouts
- Formed rather than mitred, so there is no internal weld bead in the bend
Where They Are Installed
- Routing a transfer line around a tank skirt
- 180 degree return bend on a CIP loop
- Riser off a pump discharge into an overhead header
- Gentle direction change on a shear sensitive product line
Elbows We Manufacture
Photographed from our own catalogue items, not stock imagery.
Where Elbows Are Used
Dairy Processing
Dairy is unforgiving. Protein deposits bake onto any surface rougher than specification and a cold spot in a CIP circuit becomes a persistent count pr...
Food and Beverage Processing
Mixed product runs, tight changeovers and audits that ask you to prove the line was clean. Food and beverage plants need components that survive daily...
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Every component in a pharmaceutical line has to be defensible on paper as well as in the plant. What matters is the declared standard, the declared fi...
Cosmetics and Personal Care
Cosmetic production means viscous product, frequent colour and fragrance changeovers and a plant that has to be visibly clean between batches. Compone...
Related Capability
Multi Standard Supply
A machine built in one country is often installed in another. We manufacture to AS1528, BS4825, DIN 11864, 3-A, SMS and RJT, so one supplier can cover...
Guides That Help You Specify
304 or 316L Stainless Steel for Hygienic Process Equipment
Both are supplied as standard on everything in this catalogue. The choice is about chlorides and welding, not about one grade bein...
Surface Finish Ra and Why Polished Is Not a Specification
Ra 0.8 um is the standard finish on everything here, with Ra 0.6 um and Ra 0.4 um available. This is what the figure means and whe...
Making a Tri-Clamp Joint That Does Not Leak
The tri-clamp joint is three parts working together. When it weeps after a CIP cycle, it is almost always because one of the three...
Elbows FAQ
What engineers ask before they specify this category.
When do I need a long radius bend
When the product is shear sensitive, abrasive or highly viscous, and on pumped lines where you want to keep pressure drop down. For water-like product at normal velocities a standard radius is fine.
Are your elbows formed or mitred
The bends in this catalogue are formed, so there is no internal weld bead across the flow path where soil could collect.
Can you supply elbows to two different standards in one order
Yes. We manufacture to AS, BS, DIN, 3-A and SMS dimensions. Mark each line item with the standard it belongs to and we will produce and label them separately.
Get Elbows Quoted Against Your Duty
Send the line size, media, working pressure, temperature and the standard you work to, and we will confirm dimensions, material and finish in writing.