GORE™ SEQUEL® Packing - Market Specific Applications

Pharmaceutical Market

Vitamin Powder Mixing
Material: Dry powders
Main Benefit: Long sealing life with abrasive fillers for mixing blade seals. Minimum sleeve wear due to conformability - does not harden.

Specialty Chemical Reactors
Material:Liquids and liquid slurries
Main Benefit: Chemically resistant to range of chemicals in 1-14pH range. Temperatures range of -240°C to 288°C and low thermal expansion of SEQUEL® packing to minimize friction on mixer shaft.

Tablet Machines
Material: Dry powder. Mixer type: compactor
Main Benefit: Able to seal mixer shaft in a very abrasive, high-speed mixer (up to 6000 rpm)

Chemical Filter Dryers
Material: Wet, aggregated powders
Main Benefit: Effectively seals mixer shaft on chemical filter dryers where powder is dried and aggregates are separated.

Beverage Applications

Beer Mash Cookers
Material: Beer Processing; Mash cookers
Main Benefit: Minimizes downtime with cookers due to packing change-outs on mixer shaft seal.

Beer and Soft Drink Automatic Bottle Fillers. (CROWN 100 valve beer filler)
Material:Alcohol and sugar based beverages.
Main Benefit: effective, longer-term packing on automatic dispensing fill systems. This reduces downtime for a difficult-to-repair seal.

Food Industry Applications

Food Additives
Materials: Liquid/powder blends or all powder blending
Main benefit: Similar to pharmaceutical applications, a reliable agitator or pump packing that extends seal life in abrasive conditions with higher shaft rpm's or system temperatures.
Types of Mixers: Ribbon blenders and mixers, and dough mixers.

Bubble Gum Manufacturing
Materials: Gum polymers and additive blends
Main benefit : Packing life has been quadrupled and still going! Displaced KevlarÒpacking in Z-blade mixers with four (4) packed glands. Media is gum base, sugar and flavorings.

Cookie/Cake Powder and Batter Mixing
Materials: Powder mixing, corn syrup/sugar blends
Main benefit : Reliable agitator or pump shaft sealing

Chocolate Manufacturing; mixing and pumps
Materials: Conche chocolate mixers
Main benefit : Longer seal life, FDA compliance of packing at elevated temperatures.

Food Steaming/Cooking Vats
Materials: Spaghetti sauces, tomato processing, vegetable processing
Main benefit : FDA Incidental Food Contact compliance combined with longevity of packing at elevated temperatures for mixer shaft sealing.

Chemical Process Industries

Pulp and Paper
Material: Pulp and caustic solution
Main Benefit: White packing to eliminate potential of contamination for fine writing paper while maintaining long packing life for digester agitator packing and water service pumps.

Plastic Industry/Rubber Compounding Industry
Material:Plastic powder, plastic flake, reinforcing fillers compounded into plastic and rubber
Main Benefit: Able to seal transport augers and mixers in plastic/rubber industry. Can be used for dough mixer seals for rubber compounding industry in presence of aggressive powders or fillers for longer life of packing which leads to lower material losses and cleaner work environment.

Chemical Processing Fluids and Dispersions/Slurries
Material: Fluid/filler dispersions such as antifoam agents, pigment/fluid blends that are pumped or mixed at elevated temperatures/pressures.
Main Benefit: SEQUEL® packing will maintain the seal at elevated temperature/pressures without sleeve wear for a longer time versus other packing types.

*Kevlar is a registered trademark of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc.