Case Studies

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

A municipality in Pennsylvania was having issues with major inefficiencies in its sewage treatment system. 

The installation of an AESSEAL high performance CFFC™ dual seal proved to be the solution for the persistent failure of a seal on a North Sea oil platform.

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

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

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

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

Significant savings with mechanical seal and bearing protection for the pet food manufacturer

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Preventing dust from escaping into the working environment and is saving thousands of dollars a year

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

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

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

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

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.

The installation of the AESSEAL DMSF seal and SW2 water management system at the Ford plant in Pretoria, South Africa, has improved the MTBF of a crucial seal from less than two weeks to more than two years.

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

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

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.

Enfinium were disappointed with the support provided by their pump OEM

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

A company in the Oil and Gas industry in Qatar were dissatisfied with the reliability of the mechanical seal used in crude export and oil/water booster pumps.

A Polish Petrochemical Company was paying heavy fines resulting from the escape of harmful solvents into the atmosphere.

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.