Blog
- June 25, 2025
FlangeGuards is the Leading Manufacturer and Supplier of Pipe Safety Shields
Pipe safety shields, also known as flange guards or "flange diapers," are used in a variety of industries. Their primary application is the prevention of harmful spray-outs and mist formation from failing pipe joints. Oftentimes, these mists are composed of toxic, corrosive, and dangerous liquids such as acid, oil or steam.
- June 20, 2025
Choosing the Right Seal for Your Industrial Application
In the world of industrial engineering and manufacturing, seals might not get the spotlight—but they do the heavy lifting when it comes to performance, reliability, and safety. With countless seal types and material options on the market, selecting the right one for your project can feel overwhelming.
So how do you know which sealing solution is best for your application?
- June 17, 2025
An important measure of hose flexibility is the Minimum Bend Radius (MBR). While most everyone understands that this is the smallest radius to which a hose can be bent, the method of measuring this radius is often misunderstood. Additionally, while most hose constructions list a single MBR, corrugated metal hose lists two: a static and a dynamic MBR. Let’s take a minute to review the differences between static and dynamic MBR’s and when they should (or should not) be used.
- June 12, 2025
If you want to drastically improve the efficiency of your pump and reduce maintenance, the first thing to do is change your approach to maintaining your pump. Focus not just on the specialized equipment your plant uses, but focus on valves, pipes, and other crucial operational equipment.
Did you know that the most common source of wasted energy in pumping systems has to do with seals that weren’t properly sized for their applications? This causes throttling of the pump’s flow, and reduces efficiency.
- June 11, 2025
Understanding the Complexities of Rotary Sealing
Sealing technology spans virtually every sector—energy, aerospace, food processing, medical devices, and more. Across this wide range of industries, sealing requirements vary dramatically depending on the motion involved: static, reciprocating, or rotary. Of these, rotary sealing often proves to be the most demanding, due to the combination of continuous motion, pressure, speed, and mechanical variability.
Let’s explore why rotary sealing
- June 04, 2025
Streamlining Quality Assurance
The benefits of in-house validation testing in expansion joint manufacturing.
There are several diverse ways to design expansion joints. As the design evolves, each variation requires testing and validation to ensure the expansion joint is performing in the targeted range. Validation testing could take a long time and cost a lot of money if every variation is sent to a third-party testing facility. That is why it is crucial to have in-house testing capabilities
- June 01, 2025
Spring-Energized Metal Seals Help Protect Equipment
Spring-energized metal seals provide numerous advantages in oil and gas applications, including but not limited to MWD and LWD tools, couplings, subsea compressors, enclosures/vessels, christmas trees, electronic submersible pumps and flowmeters. Extreme operating pressures and temperatures, together with more difficult resource recovery, zero tolerance for failure and environmental concerns, are placing unprecedented demands on this equipment.
- May 28, 2025
Here we’ll discuss the basic functionality and design principles of spring energized seals and discover why one might be the perfect sealing solution in your application. This article was written by GFS supplier/partner Eclipse Engineering.
Spring energized PTFE seals perform reliably in a variety of applications where conventional elastomeric seals fail due to chemical attack, extreme heat or cold, friction, extrusion or compression set.
- May 26, 2025
Gasket Installation Procedures: Best Practices
This blog provides guidance to maintenance operators, engineers and fitters to ensure successful gasket installation and assembly of bolted flange connections. However always check plant-approved installation procedures first.
The successful operation of a gasket depends upon a multiplicity of factors including the style and quality of the gasket material, but also the medium being sealed, the flange design, the amount of pressure applied
- May 22, 2025
Understanding the Forces That Impact Soft Gasketing Performance
Gaskets are often an afterthought when it comes to the well-being of a plant or process, as their cost is often negligible in the grand scheme of things.
Gallagher Fluid Seals stocks soft gasketing material from various manufacturers in many different thicknesses. Read on to better understand how to choose the correct gasketing material for your specific application.
