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- May 01, 2025
Protecting Downstream Equipment with Garlock Strainer Gaskets
Garlocks's in-line strainer gaskets are an effective and inexpensive way to protect valuable downstream equipment such as metering devices from dangerous debris in the pipeline. The stainless steel mesh acts as a filter to separate weld beads/slag, pipe scale, grit, and other foreign materials from the process fluids.
Garlock Strainer Gaskets can help protect standard flange connections that are located upstream from
- April 29, 2025
Gallagher Fluid Seals is a Parker Distributor is proud to be proud to be one of the few premier distributors to qualify as a “Parker Seal Technology Center (STC)”.
What does a good seal engineering drawing look like?
You just spent 6 months testing, stretching, aging and exposing your new seal design to 12 different chemicals. Finally, you are done. So what does a good technical drawing for a seal include? For most companies, the drawing is simple. For an O-ring,
- April 25, 2025
Flexibility in Your Rigid Piping Systems With Abra-Line
Garlock ABRA-LINE ™ rubber expansion joints offer superior performance, reliability and service life in your plant.
The ABRA-LINE™ family of products was developed for highly abrasive applications typically found in the power generation, fertilizer, mining and chemical industries. These may include flue gas desulphurization systems, phosphate mining, dry bulk power transfer systems, tailings and slurry applications. Their proprietary
- April 23, 2025
New Sealing Material For Safe Battery Cells
Freudenberg offers an optimized sealing material for e-mobility applications as an alternative to PFAS-containing thermoplastic and FKM seals. This new material series is processed by injection molding, delivers superior sealing performance, ensures battery life and meets increasingly stringent environmental regulations.
In the rapidly growing electric vehicle
- April 10, 2025
Flange Guards, Safety Shields, Spray Guards
How to Select the Right Flange Spray Protector
Pipe safety shields, also known as flange guards, are used in a variety of industries, including oil & gas, power generation, chemical, marine, and much more. The primary function of spray shields is the prevention of harmful sprays and mist formation from failing pipe joints, of toxic, corrosive
- April 07, 2025
Poppet Seals for Demand Flow Regulators
Avoid Leakage and Support a More Accurate System
Poppet seals are sealing elements used to control fluid or gas flow in various applications. They consist of a movable component, the "poppet," that fits snugly against a valve seat to stop or allow fluid to pass through. When the poppet lifts, it opens the flow path, and when it returns to its seat, it creates a seal, stopping the flow.
There are many applications in industrial
- April 03, 2025
KLINGER® Graphite Laminate PSM
The pure graphite gasket material with a stainless steel tang insert
KLINGER® Graphite Laminate PSM has a 0.1 mm thick perforated stainless steel insert. The insert aids material handling properties and also increases the blow-out resistance. The insert is mechanically bonded to pure exfoliated graphite and therefore does not rely on adhesive.
Stable physical properties over the whole temperature range. KLINGER® Graphite Laminates
- April 01, 2025
Video - Parker Clipper® Oil Seals – Speed, Pressure, and Temperature Capabilities
This video is part 2 in our Clipper® Oil Seals video series.
Often known as shaft seals or lip seals, oil seals are used in hundreds of applications around the globe and are commonly found in equipment such as: pumps, motors, gearboxes, crushers, mixers, compressors, cranes, drag lines, hoists, elevators, flywheels, bearings, and much more.
Since their introduction in 1969, there have been more than
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