SEALING SOLUTIONS FOR MIXERS & AGITATORS
Knowledge, Challenges and Solutions
The Top-5-Challenges for sealing Mixers & Agitators!
Industrial mixers and stirrers are used in the food and beverage industry as well as in the pharmaceutical industry. Machine builders and operators of industrial mixers and stirrers are often faced with special challenges…
Challenge
The seals in highspeed mixers have to be resistant against speed, temperature and sticky products. FDA and EC1935 compliance must be ensured for solutions in all mixing and processing machines.
Solution
PS-SEAL®, single lip in GYLON® Blue with a static sealing element GYLON® Blue fulfills all requirements.
Challenge
Chocolate and cream are extremely critical in rotating shafts due to their tendency to crystalize on the pump shafts.
Solution
Replace the packings by a state of the art shaft seal solution: Garlock PS-SEAL® with GYLON® Blue Style 3504 as lip material.
Challenge
Packings cannot sustain demanding process conditions and mechanical seals are too complex and expensive, especially when serialization is not possible. In addition many applications are dry running and high temperature.
Challenge
Constant vacuum loss during the crystallisation process and use of old technology with stuffing box packings. Frequent readjustment by the maintenance team in order to maintain the required vacuum.
Solution
Garlock 3-D Seal: increasing lifetime, safety for the employees, long-term cost savings and increased productivity.
Challenge
Need of sealing which is free of “dead areas” and low wear as well. Further the extensive admissions of the sealing material (e.g. food grade, ADI-free, USP class VI, and many more).
Solution
PS-SEAL®, Non-Standard, reverse lip in GYLON® White with static sealing GYLON® White to meet the requirements of pharmaceutical and food industries.
Material
GYLON® is being used as lip seal material of PS-SEAL® and significantly responsible for its successful operation. We offer highly diverse seal options and combinations of materials to cope with the very different requirements of many diverse industrial branches. GYLON® is a modified PTFE and is used due to its high chemical resistance, its high temperature range and its low friction.
Our Services
Our experts are application engineers as well as sales engineers. All are highly trained and can discuss and debate the requirements of your applications with you professionally and expertly and advise you on the way to the best fitting sealing solution.
Hygienic Design
Meeting hygiene standards is the top priority in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Sealing systems must meet the requirements of “hygienic design”. Hygienic seals must be designed to be free of dead space.
Our solutions meet these requirements
In order to meet the requirements of special applications, we have subjected our materials and our GYLON® to special tests. These tests provide the basis for certification.
Mixer & Agitator Cleaning
The cleaning processes are carried out using CIP (Clean-In-Place) as well as SIP (Sterilization-In-Place). The sealing solutions must withstand these processes.
Solutions for Mixers & Agitators
GYLON® is being used as lip seal material of PS-SEAL® and significantly responsible for its successful operation. We offer highly diverse seal options and combinations of materials to cope with the very different requirements of many diverse industrial branches. GYLON® is a modified PTFE and is used due to its high chemical resistance, its high temperature range and its low friction.
We answer your questions!
Please write to garlockgmbh@garlock.com
How to find us
Garlock GmbH
Falkenweg 1
41468 Neuss
GERMANY
Contact
+49 2131 349-0
garlockgmbh@garlock.com
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