O-Rings: A crucial guide for the food production industry
Amid the components used in a food processing plant, O-rings play a pivotal role. But installing and maintaining them correctly is just as important as selecting the right materials
Amid the components used in a food processing plant, O-rings play a pivotal role. But installing and maintaining them correctly is just as important as selecting the right materials
A COMMITMENT to product development and supporting customers in critical applications lead the sealing solutions experts at James Walker to a new offering for valve stem sealing in ultra-high temperature applications.
Food and beverage manufacturers are requiring cleaner, safer machine designs from their OEM machine builders, explains INMOCO’s Gerard Bush
IN ORDER to ensure that process plants meet hygiene requirements, industry-specific approvals and resistance to CIP/SIP media, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has developed a new series of high-performance seals for butterfly valves.
VAPOUR PERMEABILITY systems are available from Versaperm to measure how well seals, pipes, electronic enclosures and general materials perform across temperatures from -80 to 1100C and pressures from 0 to 300bar.
LIMITATIONS IN the performance of PTFE hydraulic piston seals prompted SKF to develop a new material and geometry to overcome the problem
Reliable operation of fans and blowers is often critical to
production or process operations.Here, Phil Burge,marketing
manager at SKF, looks at how the uptime of such equipment
can be increased through integrated bearing,
John Crane has launched a
sealing solution that meets the
requirements for wet-running
and dry-running capabilities with
one common seal platform. The new
Type 3740 cartridge split seal (the
latest addition to the compa
Specialist seals manufacturer, Blue
Diamond, has launched a seal design
service for applications where high
performance and efficiency are
required. Application engineers at
the company have the knowledge
and experience
Fischbein-Saxon Band Sealers
SB3000 and SB4000 replace Saxon
Band 15 and 20 to provide state-ofthe-
art machines. Band sealers use
the principle of conduction, where
fixed heating elements heat the bags
by direct contac
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