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- December 26, 2024
Custom Wiper Seal Eliminates Costly Downtime for Food Manufacturer
In the food and beverage industry, high-volume production is essential. Even brief interruptions can result in significant losses. When a major manufacturer began having reoccurring challenges with the durability of their seals in the industrial mixers, their staff began to feel the pressure to keep up with massive customer orders.
Seal Challenge in Food Manufacturing
A major food manufacturer, known for its exacting
- December 23, 2024
Metal Seal Design Guide
Gallagher Fluid Seals is an authorized distributor and Seal Technology Center (STC) for Parker Hannifin.
What is a metal seal?
A metal seal is typically used when the conditions for a polymer or elastomer are inadequate for a sealing device; extreme heat, extreme cold, extreme pressure, or a vacuum.. With significant resilience coupled with the right material selection/coating for an application, a metal seal can be a very durable seal
- December 20, 2024
PEEK Spring Energized Seal in a High Temperature and High Radiation Application
One distinct environment presents a particularly challenging set of circumstances for seal design – high radiation. Gallagher Fluid Seals partners with Eclipse Engineering on many unique customer projects. Eclipse’s primary seal material choice for many applications is PTFE and PTFE blends. With all the wonderful attributes PTFE possesses as a seal material, radiation resistance is not one. In high radiation environments
- December 17, 2024
Increasing Pump Performance with Thermoplastic Bushings
One of Vesconite Bearings’ innovative bushing materials, Vesconite Hilube, has assisted a pump manufacturing company on the Gulf Coast withstand harsh and highly-corrosive operating environments, which pose significant challenges for pump systems.
Before switching to Vesconite Hilube line shaft bushings, the pumps relied on materials like bronze, cutlass rubber, and 316 stainless steel. These materials,
- December 13, 2024
Video - DuPont™ Kalrez® Thermal Stability and Critical Performance Properties
In this video, Gallagher explores Kalrez and its longstanding thermal stability characteristics along with selected critical performance properties, such as permeation rates, outgassing rates, radiation resistance, and hardness/ temperature relationships.
The full agenda can be seen below.
- December 10, 2024
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)”.
Increasing Seal Reliability in Electric Scooters
As of June 30, 2024, there were 194 electric scooter systems in 130 cities in the United States. Because of this, innovative sealing solutions are becoming essential in enhancing the performance and environmental responsibility of urban mobility vehicles.
- December 06, 2024
PEEK and PAI Thermoplastics from FST
Transmission development is a focus for emissions reduction. Dual-clutch transmissions or automatic transmissions with eight or more gears not only increase the efficiency of the drivetrain but also create new challenges.
Higher load generation is one major challenge of dual-clutch transmissions and seals from Freudenberg Sealing Technologies made from PEEK (polyetheretherketone) or PAI (polyamideimide), in conjunction
- December 04, 2024
Controlling Leaks with Bearing Isolators
Today’s demanding applications call for other sealing methods. One alternative is the bearing isolator. Advances have created units with little frictional drag and a service life that is up to 65 times greater than that of a radial lip seal.
As radial lip seal technology evolves, new materials, geometries and configurations are being tested for their ability to reduce or overcome frictional drag between the lip and the shaft.
Because
- November 29, 2024
GORE Universal Pipe Gasket Style 800
GORE® Universal Pipe Gasket (Style 800) provides a reliable seal for steel, glass-lined steel and fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) flanges, in the full spectrum of strong acid, alkali, and solvent process media, including the most challenging thermal cycling and elevated temperature applications.
This single gasket solution can reduce the process safety and production downtime risks caused by the use of an incorrect gasket material. Highly conformable
- November 26, 2024
Parker's E1244-70 Compound - USP Class VI and USP <87> Internally Lubricated EPDM
Parker compound E1244-70 contains an internal lubricant that reduces installation force and dynamic friction without the need for an external lubricant. The proprietary internal lubricant in E1244-70 is derived from the fatty acid family, making it unlikely to cause a patient reaction. Successfully completing USP Class VI and USP <87> testing further demonstrates the safety of this internal lubricant.
