freudenberg xpress
- August 03, 2017
What do you do when you need an urgent spare part for a made-to-order seal? What do you do when special seals are required for a short production run of 400 machines? It’s hard to know. Here’s where the Freudenberg Xpress® experts come into play.
Timo Furrer oversees Freudenberg Xpress, which now includes 12 facilities worldwide. He and his team are in demand whenever time is pressing or the manufacture of prototypes or short production runs is required. “Customers traditionally turn to us when they need a specific sealing solution fast for maintenance and repair work,” Furrer said. But there are other occasions as well. Freudenberg Xpress experts are also called on when a manufacturer develops new equipment and has to find the best possible sealing systems for it. To avoid costly field tests, the manufacturer tests the limits of various prototypes that Freudenberg Xpress can provide on short notice.
From Tiny to Huge
To these sealing specialists, it doesn’t matter whether their customers need seals with diameters of just two millimeters or a full twenty meters – a size that can be found in wind turbines or hydro-electric plants. Nor does it matter whether the order is for a standard seal or a customer-specific product. “Within 24 hours of the incoming order’s arrival, we can produce and deliver up to 50 units,” Furrer said.
- June 02, 2016
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies offers a unique service: machined seals from the original materials and original profiles as regular production, produced as tailor-made individual parts to meet the demand for replacement parts, prototypes or small, economical batches. Since everything has to move fast, their objective never varies: the parts are ordered, machined and delivered immediately, even overnight when possible.
