Garlock products
- July 30, 2024
Enhanced Surface Profiles for Gaskets
How this feature can improve performance and efficiency with gaskets
Gaskets have always been part of industrial production. However, gaskets have not always been forgiving, easy to use or simple to remove. What if the sealing products were designed to optimize the work put into them? What if the design had a level of intelligence built in? What if the design could make up for equipment damage? When used properly, enhanced surface profiles for
- June 27, 2024
INDUSTRY
Oil and Gas - Ethanol
- April 03, 2024
Garlock Stress Saver® Gaskets
Since 1996 the Garlock family of companies has successfully sealed low load flanges with their Stress Saver® family of products. The molded raised ribs help to create a tighter seal by concentrating the compressive load, ideal for lightweight piping. This blog will examine five stress saver gaskets that are all available on the Gallagher Fluid Seals website.
- March 27, 2024
Determining Low Temperature Ratings for Rubber Seals
Temperature ratings are typically published for industrial seals so you know where they can and cannot be used.
Many sealing products have testing standards, allowing manufacturers to publish results for easy product comparison.
However, there is no standard that tells you how to determine minimum and maximum temperatures, so how do companies come up with their ratings? Furthermore, if two suppliers offer the same type of material
- March 14, 2024
As a trusted supplier of high-performance sealing solutions to the pharmaceutical industry, the Garlock family of companies knows that gaskets can make or break a sanitary process. But how has material technology been evolving? This blog will discuss how material technologies are meeting manufacturing challenges to help pharmaceutical companies adapt to smaller batch sizes, frequent changeovers, leaner operations, vendor consolidation and stricter regulations.
- February 02, 2024
Corrosion with Braided Packing
Galvanic corrosion is an electrochemical process that occurs between two dissimilar metals, or between a metal and a conductive non-metallic material, when both are exposed to an electrically conductive media. In the case of a packing gland, it occurs between a metal component and the carbon or graphite packing. Under these conditions, the material that is closest to the anodic end of the galvanic scale will be corroded in preference to the one that is closest
- January 18, 2024
Enhancing the surface profile can improve sealing capabilities, extending the functionality of aging piping systems in chemical plants.
There are many aged and aging process plants in operation today. In fact, many of the processing plants for power, chemicals, oil, etc., have been in service for more than 50 years. And while the piping itself may remain intact, their bolted flange gasket joints and connections are becoming misaligned, corroded and damaged due to repeated handling, chemical
- January 11, 2024
Garlock GYLON® Style 3545 Exceeds in Chemical Processing
INDUSTRY
Chemical Processing
OPERATING CONDITIONS
Size: Various
Temperature: 200° F
Application: Carbon steel, lead-lined flanges
Media: Bromine
Pressure: 150 psi - December 14, 2023
The Potential Benefits of Investing in High Performance Expansion Joints
Material validation is a critical step when designing a high-performance expansion joint. Therefore, it is important to know what is on the inside of the expansion joint and not just the outside. There are numerous issues that could arise from improper material selection and layering construction that will ultimately affect the life and performance
