Case Studies

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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