Gallagher Seals news

Are you having trouble finding the time to get a training session up and running?  Need an insightful presenter to engage your employees?  Contact your Gallagher Fluid Seals Account Manager, or fill out our Lunch-and-Learn online form to discuss if a Lunch-and-Learn makes sense for your organization.

What Exactly is a Lunch-and-Learn Program?

A lunch-and-learn program is a training or presentation session facilitated and provided by Gallagher Fluid Seals and one of our key vendors.  They usually last approximately 30-45 minutes (i.e. an employee's lunch hour).  It's usually held in an employee cafeteria, auditorium, or conference room.  This concept provides easy access to participants, and is typically less formal than most standard training sessions.  As an incentive to your company and the training participants, Gallagher Fluid Seals will provide lunch!

Lunch-and-Learn programs are an easy way to develop and motivate employees, while creating an environment of communication, collaboration, and learning.

At Gallagher Fluid Seals, we strive to deliver sealing solutions where there was previously a failure - to be our customers' Seal Specialist.  Our position as an independent distributor allows us the freedom to be truly objective, analyzing the various options available from our suppliers, and providing the optimal sealing configuration for your application.

But with many different product lines at our fingertips, how do we know what seal, gasket, o-ring will work the best in your application? We position ourselves as The Seal Specialist, but it's not just a motto or a tagline, it's a culture here at Gallagher.

In 2016, our sales team attended over 1200 hours of training... that's more than 150 eight hour work days... that's over 30 five-day work weeks.  They trained with some of our key vendors such as Parker, DuPont, Garlock, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, GORE, Thermoseal, and Thordon, to gain a better understanding of their product lines.

Gallagher Fluid Seals is pleased to announce that they have acquired Commo Sealing Products of North Providence, Rhode Island.  Established in 1997, Commo Sealing Products was a fabricator of mostly rubber gaskets and sealing elements, with the majority of their customers located in and around the greater Providence area.

Current Commo Sealing customers will be serviced by Gallagher's Fabrication/Sales Office located in East Longmeadow, MA.  The East Longmeadow facility boasts over 40,000 sq.ft. of manufacturing space.

Gallagher Fluid Seals recently held its 60^th anniversary gala, inviting employees, family, and friends to Sunnybrook Country Club in Blue Bell, PA for a night of celebration and reflection.

As Gallagher celebrates its 60th anniversary, we've decided to use this space to look back, and discuss what the future holds.

The year was 1956.  Elvis Presley owned the airwaves, and was emerging as one of the world’s first rock stars.  Felix Wankel (Germany) developed the first rotary internal combustion engine.  The cost of a first-class stamp was three cents. And in a small house in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with four young children and a wife, Walter B. Gallagher started Gallagher Fluid Seals.

CFO to CEO: “What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave?”

CEO to CFO: “What happens if we don’t, and they stay?”

-Peter Baeklund

I’m sure everyone has heard the above statement is some fashion over the past few years.

Very few employees these days work for pay alone, and providing training and opportunity for advancement is paramount to your ability to recruit and/or retain the best employees.

Gallagher Fluid Seals is pleased to announce the launch of its new engineering application request (EAR) form, designed to help our clients get answers to their sealing problems.

In a way, it seems fitting that we’re using the acronym “EAR” for this form, because it allows us to listen to our client’s needs.

“This is an exciting time for us, because we do have a new generation of polyurethane.”

That’s Greg Daniels of Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, speaking in the recent webinar we ran with our friends at the German company.

He’s talking about the benefits of 94 AU 30000, a durable, effective new sealing solution. Here are the basics of some of the characteristics of this new Freudenberg polyurethane:

In the past few years, Gallagher Fluid Seals has greatly expanded the ‘Lunch and Learn’ events that we hold for our customers and prospects.

These events are typically aimed at organizations that have engineering departments or maintenance staffs whose jobs require them to interact with seals on a consistent basis.

There’s a new generation of polyurethane on the market, courtesy of our friends at the German company Freudenberg Sealing Technologies.

It’s called 94 AU 30000 polyurethane, and it achieves much better results than other materials on the market due to its improved characteristics. It gives seals a high resistance to even hot water and lets them last longer than other seal solutions.

Among 94 AU 30000 polyurethane’s values to customers:

• High extrusion stability