Update Service

Click on the image to download the latest newsletter. Sign up for our "Update Service" by simply entering your email address below.

Press Releases & Editorials

Fully-Split Shaft Seals Permit Installation Without Removal of Bearings or Drives

MECO's EAS externally-adjusted seals offer complete containment of dry powders, pastes, slurries, corrosives, fluids, solvents, vapours and gases on a wide variety of rotating equipment, where traditional packings fail to seal.

The patented MECO/system® concept is based on the use of a driving elastomer; there are no fixed-load springs to loosen, corrode or break. The seal face pressures are fully-adjustable with no disassembly, often while the equipment continues to operate. Since the self-compensating driving elastomer is the seal's only interface with the shaft, the EAS seal will accommodate significant radial and angular shaft misalignment and shock loads, as well as thermal growth in high-temperature process machinery. The EAS is custom-designed and manufactured to each application, and can be retrofitted to most process equipment such as blenders, agitators, extruders, screw conveyors, buck elevators, dryers, mills, etc. MECO incorporates 1/4" runout/misalignment capacity into EAS seal designs. Where needed, more runout capacity can be provided; worn or even bent shafts present no problem. Unlike traditional mechanical seals, MECO seal faces are soft, fault-tolerant and almost impossible to break.

Available factory-installed on better machinery and from:

FTL Technology
Bruntcliffe Avenue, Leeds 27 Business Park
Morley
Leeds LS27 0TG

END

Further Information
For further information relating to any of the above products, please contact Tony Snowdon on 0113 252 1061 or e-mail tonys@ftltech.co.uk