“Highly wear-resistant materials are often not approved for food and pharma – now we offer a lip material that is highly wear-resistant and also has the necessary certificates so manufacturers no longer have to compromise on wear resistance”, explains Stefan Brinkmann, Marketing Manager at Garlock GmbH. GYLON® Brown-White complies with EC1935 / 2004, FDA and USP Class VI.
The newly developed GYLON® Brown-White was tested on a test bench especially developed by Garlock. Compared with other GYLON® lip materials used in the food and pharmaceutical industry, the new lip material has an up to three times longer service life in abrasive media.
Unitized multi-layer lip material – available in various designs and lip configurations for a variety of applications
The new sealing lip GYLON® Brown-White Style 3549 consists of two calendered and jointly sintered layers, which Garlock has developed explicitly for the requirements of the food and pharmaceutical industries. The components used in the brown running side ensure the material´s high abrasion resistance and superior wear resistance. The white visible side provides a restoring force to further improve the sealing effect of the brown layer, and an improved dissipation of the heat arising at the sealing point.
Due to its dead space reduced design, the "revised lip" design is a best practice in food and pharmaceutical applications. Other lip configurations are available as well. In addition, a very low coefficient of friction and an extremely low surface tension ensure that almost no residue sticks to the new seal. Like the whole GYLON® product family, GYLON® Brown-White is made of PTFE, and therefore highly chemically resistant and also suitable for clean-in-place (CIP) and sterilize-in-place (SIP) processes.
With the new, highly wear-resistant sealing lip material, the food and pharmaceutical industry will be able to achieve significantly better service lives in abrasive media as well as complying to all relevant standards.
Garlock, part of EnPro Industries Inc., is one of the leading companies in the field of high performance sealing technology and is considered to be a specialist for sealing critical, demanding media in innovative machine, engineering and construction and in the process industry. With an integrated spectrum of services, Garlock supports a wide variety of industries. Garlock offers the best possible individualized technical consultancy and industry specific engineering competence in designing, producing, supplying and commissioning its sealing products. The main goal is always to ensure a safe, sustainable and environmentally compatible machine and plant operation. The product portfolio covers cut gaskets made of modified PTFE and fiber materials, shaft seals, bearing isolators, diaphragms, metallic gaskets, compression packing, hydraulic seals, graphite seals and butterfly valves. As well as standard seals, Garlock primarily develops and produces special solutions for customer specific applications. These seals are used in such industries as machine and plant engineering and construction, pharma and food, conventional and alternative power generation, steel and aluminum, paper, mining, marine and oil and gas. Garlock also has its own research and development facilities, which can also be called upon for in-depth examinations and analyses within the scope of customer support. Roughly 1400 employees work for the company at 22 locations. Garlock is represented in more than 90 other countries through distribution partners and specialist dealers.
Milestones
» 1887 Olin J. Garlock founds Garlock
» 1923 CHEVRON®-Set for locomotive steam cylinders and piston introduced
» 1928 KLOZURE®, the first ever synthetic rubber shaft seal is introduced
» 1967 The GYLON® family is introduced
» 1979 BLUE-GARD® is introduced, the world´s first asbestos-free fiber flat seal
» 2007 GYLON BIO-PRO® is introduced
» 2011 Introduction of the advanced labyrinth SGi™
» 2012 Centralization of the global production of GAR-SEAL valves at the facility in Neuss, Germany
» 2016 Introduction of the GYLON BIO-PRO® PLUS for the pharmaceutical industry
Facts & Figures
» Industry: Sealing technology
» Products: Seals for static and dynamic applications and valves, such as shaft seals, labyrinth seals, compression packaging, cut gaskets, graphite seals and valves
» Market position: Leader for sealing solutions for critical and complex machine and plant construction as well as in the process industry
» Employees: 1400 worldwide
Garlock GmbH
Falkenweg 1
41468 Neuss
Telefon: +49 (2131) 349-0
Telefax: +49 (2131) 349-222
http://www.garlock.com
Marketing Manager EMEA
Telefon: +49 (2131) 349-208
Fax: +49 (2131) 349110208
E-Mail: stefan.brinkmann@garlock.com
Product Manager
Telefon: +49 (2131) 349-204
E-Mail: frank.sonnenschein@garlock.com