Case Studies

A repair and maintenance company in West Virginia says that its customers in the local coal mining industry have recorded major savings following a decision to upgrade to AESSEAL LabTecta FS.

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.

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.

A large oil and gas company in north Africa contacted AESSEAL to look at a sealing issue on its hot oil pumps.

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 rapid repair of a faulty seal saved a UK pharmaceuticals company almost £2 million in lost production.

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.

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 French pharmaceuticals company has saved over €200,000 in the first year following its decision to change to an AESSEAL reactor packing system.

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

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.

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

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

The Grupo Mexico Caridad mine in Mexico was experiencing lengthy downtimes and using high volumes of water for lubricating pump packing.

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

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

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.

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.

Enfinium were disappointed with the support provided by their pump OEM

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.

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.

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

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

The single seals being used by Swedish water treatment company were unsuitable for the job they were being asked to do, allowing limescale to enter between the seal faces and leak out on to the floor of the plant.

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

A lip seal which was leaking oil from an extruder gearbox was causing persistent problems for a Spanish petrochemical 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 municipality in Pennsylvania was having issues with major inefficiencies in its sewage treatment 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.