Hydra-Flex was formed in 1985 in a small warehouse in Livonia, Michigan and grew rapidly within the greater Detroit region. The company developed a strong reputation within the Automotive Tooling Market by supporting its customers with both high levels of service and a broad range of quality products. We have worked very hard as well to support GM, Ford, and Chrysler with both product and technical support to help them achieve their objectives to both reduce cost and communize their tooling systems across multiple platforms.

In 1997, Hydra-Flex was purchased by Air-Way Manufacturing Company, one of the leading global manufacturers of hydraulic adapters. Air-Way was formed in 1950 and maintains longstanding supply relationships with premier OEMs such as Caterpillar, John Deere, CNH, Kubota, Volvo and many others. Air-Way’s corporate headquarters are located in Olivet, Michigan with adapter production facilities in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Shandong Province, China that support the global expansion of our OEM customer partners.

Air-Way Canada, Pacific Hose & Fittings Div, is also a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air-Way and stocks a broad range of Air-Way adapters in both the Vancouver and Edmonton markets to serve our customers throughout Western Canada.

In 2005, Hydra-Flex established a partnership with Manuli Hydraulics to provide high quality hose assemblies to our OEM, distributor, and MRO customers. Manuli is a global manufacturer of low, medium and high pressure hose and crimp fittings and is a leader in the development of innovative products to meet the changing needs of our customers. Hydra-Flex has also established itself as a supplier of a broad range of products allowing us to support our customers with a complete turnkey product solution for their hydraulic component requirements.