New component seal range is configurable by design

3rd Quarter 2016 Shaft power components

AESSEAL has launched a completely re-engineered modular component seal range that aims to raise the industry standard and allow configurable component seals to be built to order. With 10 000 product lines available from stock and over 44 000 product permutations configurable, the company offers customers the greatest possible product availability, quality assurance and service.

The new range, in development for almost four years, incorporates unique patented features which help to improve pump reliability. These features include improved seal face cooling through directed fluid barrier flow systems, hydraulically balanced seal face technology and plug-in designs to improve performance and reliability.

Incorporating a build-to-order philosophy, the new range offers a larger selection of product variants and standard product lines that can easily be adapted to suit the customer’s requirements. By manufacturing the majority of the parts, and having full control of the supply chain, AESSEAL can now offer a much wider portfolio of seals. “This has been a huge undertaking that not many companies would take on, but we now have the same modular build-to-order business model in the component seal range portion of our business as that which we already offer in our cartridge mechanical seals,” a company spokesman commented.

The new product range is further supported by the AESSEAL seal-selection app, enabling an equivalent AESSEAL component seal to easily be selected knowing just the pump type, competitor seal reference, or dimensional information.

For more information contact Rob Waites, AESSEAL, +27 (0)11 466 6500, rwaites@aesseal.co.za, www.aesseal.co.za

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