Case Studies

A lip seal which was leaking oil from an extruder gearbox was causing persistent problems for a Spanish petrochemical company.

A leading UK company is set to save more than £5 million over five years following the installation of AESSEAL LabTecta OP bearing protectors.

The installation of a CDPH double mechanical seal along with an EasyClean™ seal support system proved to be the remedy for the frequent failures of a competitor’s seal at a power plant in Denmark.

A global energy company was facing significant losses as a result of damage to the steam turbine housing at one of its ethylene plants.

A coal mine in Australia was having seal failures roughly every two weeks on two disposal pumps.

A silicon lip seal fitted to a rubber lumps reactor at a chemical plant in northern Spain failed after just ten days, resulting in the serious leakage of oil from the gearbox.

Elastomer degradation was causing the seals on three of the boiler feed pumps at a Swedish energy plant to fail around every 12 months.

A petrochemical company based in the Middle East was having problems with persistent and costly seal failures.

Sourced and supplied a replacement seal in just two weeks for customer’s Oil and Gas operation in Saudi Arabi

A pulp & paper company in the Canada were dissatisfied with the reliability of the mechanical seal used in its Chlorine Dioxide generator pump.

AESSEAL were contacted by a power plant in the UK who were experiencing a major issue with their supply of mechanical seals.

A seal conversion kit for the Warman® AH Range of Ultra Heavy Duty Slurry Pumps helped to solve a variety of problems being experienced by a Spanish aluminium producer.

A copper mining company in central Africa was encountering problems of excessive water usage

The cooling system in a High Profile office building in the Cardiff Bay area was operating with just a single duty pump and no standby.

An oil and gas refinery in northern England was experiencing poor reliability of its steam turbine.

a French cardboard manufacturer was experiencing seal failures every two months. AESSEAL worked closely with the customer to find the right solution.

A 12-week delay on the commissioning of a new oil and gas plant in Kuwait was avoided when AESSEAL was able to step in to replace a defective competitor’s seal at short notice.

A food and beverage customer was experiencing high leakage and contamination in their process fluid on the single pass flow through system they were operating.

A specially designed double seal from AESSEAL has enabled an Italian drinks company to avoid the risk of major financial penalties which could have resulted from the release into the atmosphere of highly damaging HFC (hydrofluorocarbon) gases.

The installation of an AESSEAL^® DMSF^™ seal at a Japanese paper plant has increased the MTBF from just six months to seven years.

A US paper company has saved $1.5 million over the past seven years after replacing inefficient gland packing on two of its pumps with the AESSEAL CDSA double mechanical seal and tank systems.

The installation of the AESSEAL DMSC double mechanical seal, a close clearance bushing, a FLOWTRUE flowmeter, and a 25 litre SW2 water management system, has solved a problem of repeated seal failure for a US paper company.

A US petrochemical company is set to save tens of thousands of dollars a year following the installation of specially-designed seal pots to replace 40 existing pots which had been in place for around half a century.

A chocolate producer in Switzerland has saved around ₣2.3 million ($2.6 million) over the past year following its decision to change to an AESSEAL pump packing system.

A critical glue agitator vessel was affecting productivity for a silicone manufacturing facility in France. This situation was costing the company thousands of Euros in lost production.

Tongaat Hullett Sugar were un happy with the amount of maintenance required on the sealing of one of its pumps.

Installation of CSSN cartridge seal has resulted in a dramatic improvement in seal reliability for a South African chemical company.

A specialty chemical company at its UK processing facility were desperately trying to get spare parts for the mechanical seal on one of its critical reactors.

The installation of an FIDC seal to replace single seals with no flush or API Plan has dramatically improved pump reliability at a pulp and paper company in New England.

The installation of an AESSEAL FGDSS-N single slurry seal is saving a South African mining company thousands of dollars a year in repair and maintenance costs.

Asphalt producer pump for road surfaces was gland packed and losing over 15 tonnes of bitumen.

Replacing labyrinth seals with MagTecta on 8 lobe blowers increases MTBF to over 400%.