simmerring
- May 26, 2023
Freudenberg Simmerring - Maximum Performance Under Extreme Pressure: B2PT
The Freudenberg Simmerring has been a successful product for about nearly 90 years. It seals rotating shafts reliably, and is used in millions of applications and machines in many industries. The Simmerring is flexible, highly loadable, and very dependable. Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has now further developed Simmerrings for use in the process industry – and they are made of food-grade materials.
At high rotational speeds and pressures,
- November 07, 2017
Small, nondescript and ostensibly unspectacular – it is often developments of this exact description that lead to groundbreaking innovations in the world of technology. The idea of manufacturing seal sleeves from leather scraps became the starting point in one of the most important developments in sealing technology: the Simmerring®. For 85 years, the Simmerring has been inseparable from the Freudenberg history of success, and, in Europe, its name has even become a synonym for (radial) shaft seal rings of every kind. Today the Simmerring is a high-tech product whose key functions go far beyond the sealing of the shaft against its housing.
It all started with the economic crisis of 1929, which plunged the leather industry and thus the Freudenberg tannery – which was founded in 1849 – into difficulties. To better distribute its risks in the future, Freudenberg began to diversify the company and serve a broader market. A sample of a leather sleeve from the United States was the inspiration for giving Walther Simmer and his team the job of developing a machine that could be used to produce lip seals made of leather scraps.