Industrial Gaskets

Viton Full Face Gaskets: Ideal Uses and Applications

03 December 2018

Full face gaskets are wide enough to cover an entire flange. That means the ring starts at the edge of the flange face, moves in towards the internal pipe diameter, and thus covers the whole seal surface. Securing bolts pass through the gasket, so there’ll be bolt holes included on the die-cut material. Talking of […]

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Why Quality Gasket Seals are Essential for Hydraulic and Pneumatic Pumps

19 November 2018

Low-pressure pneumatic systems employ less than 75-kPa of pump compressed air. That figure can climb as high as a several hundred kilopascal load. For hydraulic equipment, the design engineer can easily pop another zero on the end of that number, for these heavy-duty systems are often asked to handle thousands of kilopascals, and those kinds […]

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What Gasket Materials are Commonly Used for Freezers and Coolrooms?

07 November 2018

When seeking low-temperature gaskets, coolroom designers use their engineering skills to select suitable materials. A conventional sealing material, although compressible and surface conformable, isn’t necessarily good enough here, not if it becomes brittle when the temperature drops below zero degrees Celsius. Clearly, then, as well as all of the normal, highly desirable material compressibility features, […]

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What are Classified as Food Grade / Food Safe Gaskets?

23 October 2018

Acids and oils course like water through wide channels. And although the compounds aren’t as toxic as those found interred inside chemical processing plants, that doesn’t mean they can’t eat their way through a rubber gasket. That’s why the food industry can’t operate for long without food grade gaskets. Anything less, well, those corrosive fluids […]

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Tips in Achieving Optimum Performance of an O-Ring Gasket

09 October 2018

If a smaller O-Ring gasket ends up in the beefy hands of an installer, it’s hard to ignore that slight form. How can this seemingly trivial system component ever hope to provide sealing strength? Well, for starters, this sealing component has more geometry than a conventional gasket. It’s shaped like an emaciated doughnut, but looks […]

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