Seals Articles
Three Decades of Problem Solving for Process Industries
DuPont™ Kalrez® perfluoroelastomer parts (FFKM) were developed some three decades ago and have delivered outstanding sealing reliability throughout, e...
Valve User Issue 37
Reducing Friction by More Than 30%, The Stem Slides Rather than Rubs
The new packing LATTYflon 3265LM contains a corrosion inhibitor (exclusive LATTY process) that durably protects all the parts of the fitting.
This...
Valve User Issue 37
New Product: New Flange Isolation Standards
A new Shell TAT approved product from James Walker is set to bring new standards of flange isolation to critical applications in the oil, gas and othe...
Valve User Issue 36
Saint-Gobain Seals Designs and Manufactures Extraordinary Cryogenic Seal for NASA Space Launch System (SLS) Project: Supporting Efforts to Propel Human Beings Deeper into Space
Saint-Gobain Seals reaches a highperformance mark by producing a cryogenic seal of exceptional size (more than six feet wide) for NASA’s “Space Launch...
Valve User Issue 36
No Leakage in 10 Years with Kalrez® Perfluoroelastomer Seals
Dramatic increases in instrument performance and reliability have been achieved where original PTFE gasket seals have been replaced with Kalrez® custo...
Valve User Issue 36
PPE’s Perfluoroelastomer Seals Demonstrate Long Term Cost Savings For Subsea Applications: Perlast® G75LT and G90LT ensure airtight sealing for pressure-balanced disconnect failsafe system.
Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE) one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high performance moulded elastomer seals, has announced that SECC Oil ...
Valve User Issue 35
James Walker and Teadit awarded Shell global supply contract for sealing products
Sealing product engineering specialists James Walker and Teadit have signed an Enterprise Framework Agreement with Shell Global Solutions Internationa...
Valve User Issue 34
High Performance Sealing Solutions in the Valve Industry
Visit PPE at stand A63 in Hall 03 at Valve World Expo, in Dusseldorf, Germany 2-4 December 2014 to find out more
Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE...
Valve User Issue 31
New elastomer tested to simulated 40-year life in nuclear environment
Shieldseal® 663 is the latest elastomer developed by James Walker for long-term applications in ionising radiation — as experienced in nuclear power p...
Valve User Issue 31
New steam resistant EPDM material expands PPE’s EnDura range of elastomer sealing solutions
Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE), a leading provider of high-performance O-rings, T-seals, technical moldings and sealing solutions, has developed ...
Valve User Issue 29
Driving Customer Confidence through Innovation
‘James Walker was founded in the 1880s, but it is by continually looking forward that they inspire the confidence of their global customer base;’ says...
Valve User Issue 27
Saint-Gobain Seals Group’s Custom OmniSeal® Spring-Energized Seals Installed in Environmentally-Friendly Industrial Dyeing Machines
Over the past few years, Saint-Gobain Seals Group has been working closely with DyeCoo Textile Systems B.V. (based in the Netherlands), the world’s fi...
Valve User Issue 27
PPE’s NORSOK M710 Sour Gas Tests
Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high performance molded elastomer seals has just announced it has com...
Valve User Issue 26
Tell me something I don’t know
Did you know that Gee Graphite Limited is 25 years old at the end of this year and when it comes to the Valve industry has unrivalled knowledge about ...
Valve User Issue 25
Using Low Cost Seals Can be a Long Term False Economy
Production processes utilising hazardous chemicals such as acids and amines, very often at elevated temperatures of 150°C or more, occur in a wide ran...
Valve User Issue 25
PPE Record Excellent Delivery Performance in the Elastomer Seals Industry
Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high performance moulded elastomer seals, has just announced its annu...
Valve User Issue 25
Dupont O-Rings Increase Sealing Performance for Processing Applications
Kalrez® Spectrum™ perfluoroelastomer O-rings from the Du- Pont™ Performance Elastomers range have been successfully used to minimise the risk of prema...
Valve User Issue 25
Beware Of Substandard Counterfeit Thermoplastic Materials
Following reports of a number of catastrophic failures in service it has come to our attention that sub-standard copies of James Walker Devlon® V-API ...
Valve User Issue 24
Counterfeiting - The hidden threat to safety
Behind each and every successful product lie thousands of hours and probably millions of pounds in research and development. Not surprising then that ...
Valve User Issue 24
Performance Enhancements For Mass Flow Controllers
Digital Mass Flow Controllers (MFC’s), as typically used in the semiconductor, chemical processing, food and pharmaceutical industries, are designed t...
Valve User Issue 24
High Performance Seals Extend DME Fuelled Transport Operations
Dimethyl ether (DME) burns much cleaner than diesel oils, and is also proving to be an economic and effective alternative fuel or fuel additive for us...
Valve User Issue 23
Solving Sealing Problems For Flow Control Products
Ball valves, utilising a drilledthrough ball rotating in a retaining socket, are widely used for process line control operations within industry. Typi...
Valve User Issue 23
Dichtomatik authorised distributor for Dupont Kalrez seals
Dichtomatik Ltd, specialist supplier of sealing products, has been appointed as authorised UK distributors for the Kalrez range of perfluoroelastomer ...
Valve User Issue 22
PPE - BioFuels Acidity Poses Storage Risk
The higher acidity of biofuels, compared with traditional oil-based fuels, will increase the risk of leaks in equipment used to store and handle the f...
Valve User Issue 18
PPE Presses Ahead to Meet Global Customer Demand: Increased Production Capacity Will Serve Customers Better
High performance seals manufacturer, Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE), a Unit of IDEX Corp., has invested in new production equipment to meet growi...
Valve User Issue 17
