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Gallagher Fluid Seals, Inc. Acquires Palmetto Precision Polymers and G2 Seal and Machine
May 15, 2025

Gallagher Fluid Seals, Inc. Acquires G2 Seal and Machine & Palmetto Precision Polymers

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O-rings
What Causes O-Ring Cracking?
May 12, 2025

Here at Gallagher Fluid Seals, we provide O-rings to almost every industry you can think of: fluid power, chemical processing, aerospace, energy oil & gas, life sciences, pulp & paper, etc.
The thing with an O-ring is as long as it’s doing its job, you never really even know it’s there. It is only when an O-ring starts to fail and a leak develops that you investigate the problem.
One of the key causes of O-ring cracking is ozonolysis (ozone cracking). Ozone cracking occurs mostly with Nitrile Rubber o-rings (nitrile, buna, buna-N).
What Causes O-ring Cracking
Ozone cracking occurs mostly with O-rings made from nitrile rubber. If you have previous experience with O-rings, you may recognize this material as nitrile, buna, or buna-N. This material is called a polymer, which is Greek for “many units”. Each molecule consists of individual units,

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Gallagher's Seal Engineering - What exactly does it mean?
May 08, 2025

Gallagher's Seal Engineering
You may hear the term "seal engineering" when researching elastomer profiles, elastomer or plastic material types, and designs for gland housing. But what does it mean?
In this blog, we'll discuss the benefits of using Gallagher's dedicated seal engineers for your critical sealing elements.
Engineering is characterized as the innovative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes. An integral part of engineering is to be able to adequately predict performance under specific and likely operating conditions.

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Vesconite Vesconite
Thermoplastic Slide Guide Shoes Outperform Metal Guides
May 06, 2025

Thermoplastic Slide Guide Shoes Outperform Metal Guides
A lift service and repair company successfully tested ten thermoplastic guide shoes for their elevator operation, significantly outperforming metal and grease alternatives.
Guide shoes are essential low-friction components in elevators, enabling smooth car movement. They help keep the lift car and counterweight securely aligned on their rails, preventing unwanted swaying during operation.
The company expressed satisfaction with the performance of Vesconite’s guide shoes, citing their reliability and smooth operation in daily use compared to metal counterparts.
These thermoplastic guide shoes will also be used in elevators in a high-traffic shopping and industrial area, demonstrating the company's confidence in their long-term benefits.
The self-lubricating, high-load-bearing Vesconite guide shoe and wear material ensures a smooth, maintenance-free operation. These U-shaped guide shoes

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Garlock products
Protecting Downstream Equipment with Garlock Strainer Gaskets
May 01, 2025

Protecting Downstream Equipment with Garlock Strainer Gaskets
Garlocks's in-line strainer gaskets are an effective and inexpensive way to protect valuable downstream equipment such as metering devices from dangerous debris in the pipeline. The stainless steel mesh acts as a filter to separate weld beads/slag, pipe scale, grit, and other foreign materials from the process fluids.
Garlock Strainer Gaskets can help protect standard flange connections that are located upstream from sensitive or costly processing equipment.
They remove particulate matter and debris from process fluids and can be deployed as a single filter or as a graduated system of several strainers that consume less space and at a lower cost than other methods, such as filtration cartridges.

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Parker Hannifin Seals Elastomers
What does a good seal engineering drawing look like?
April 29, 2025

Gallagher Fluid Seals is a Parker Distributor is proud to be proud to be one of the few premier distributors to qualify as a “Parker Seal Technology Center (STC)”.
What does a good seal engineering drawing look like?
You just spent 6 months testing, stretching, aging and exposing your new seal design to 12 different chemicals. Finally, you are done. So what does a good technical drawing for a seal include? For most companies, the drawing is simple. For an O-ring, usually it's simply a generic circle which shows an ID and width with some sort of material called out.

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Garlock products Expansion Joints
VIDEO: Flexibility in Your Rigid Piping Systems With Abra-Line
April 25, 2025

Flexibility in Your Rigid Piping Systems With Abra-Line
Garlock ABRA-LINE ™ rubber expansion joints offer superior performance, reliability and service life in your plant.
The ABRA-LINE™ family of products was developed for highly abrasive applications typically found in the power generation, fertilizer, mining and chemical industries. These may include flue gas desulphurization systems, phosphate mining, dry bulk power transfer systems, tailings and slurry applications. Their proprietary urethane formula was designed to reduce wear and extend service life.
Expansion joints are

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O-rings Freudenberg Sealing
New Sealing Material For Safe Battery Cells
April 23, 2025

New Sealing Material For Safe Battery Cells
Freudenberg offers an optimized sealing material for e-mobility applications as an alternative to PFAS-containing thermoplastic and FKM seals. This new material series is processed by injection molding, delivers superior sealing performance, ensures battery life and meets increasingly stringent environmental regulations.
In the rapidly growing electric vehicle market, improved battery performance with shorter charging times, maximum temperature resistance and a longer battery life are key factors for success. To meet these demands, OEMs in Europe and the United States need materials that also comply with stricter national and international environmental standards. One high-performance material for such applications comes from the elastomer material group. Freudenberg Sealing Technologies

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Kalrez Perfluoroelastomers
Kalrez® Spectrum™ 7075 for Clamping Systems
April 17, 2025

Kalrez^® Spectrum^™7075 resists aggressive fluids at high temperatures and saves costs in clamping systems

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bearings Vesconite Vesconite
Vesconite Helps Elminate Grease Burden
April 16, 2025

Vesconite Helps Elminate Grease Burden

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