Case Studies

The persistent failure of a competitor’s cartridge seal was causing problems for the chemical processing company Investchem in Johannesburg.

The installation of the AESSEAL® CSSN™ cartridge seal has resulted in a dramatic improvement in seal reliability for a South African chemical compa

A major steel producer in South Africa were experiencing unacceptable leakage and reliability with one of their lime slurry pumps.

A South African power station were experiencing regular outages leading to expensive downtime along with poor emission control and high energy loss

With an unreliable pump seal, major South African refinery turned to AESSEAL® for assistance.

A major oil refinery in South Africa had an unreliable mechanical seal on a cooler water pump.

During start-up of a new plant in South Africa, the customer had repeated problems with a mechanical seal that repeatedly failed.

A latex producer in South Africa was consuming a large quantity of water in API Plan 54 seal support systems (quench to drain) in 2 pumps.

Shaft fretting and product leakage into the atmosphere were causing safety issues and problems of product contamination for a South African&nb

Major chemical company SASOL were experiencing premature seal failure on one of its process pumps.

Major chemical company SASOL were experiencing premature seal failure on one of its process pumps.

A change from gland packing to an AESSEAL® Convertor II™ mechanical seal has helped the South African energy and chemical company Sasol cut costs b

The rapid response of the AESSEAL® team to an urgent request for a replacement seal led to the award of a new contract from a South African chemica

Constant motor failures on cooling tower motors were plaguing a South African chemical company.

The installation of an SISR seal with Plan 62 was the solution to the persistent seal failures being experienced by a South African chemical c

International packaging and paper group Mondi has installed AESSEAL water management systems cutting water usage at the plant by more than 60,000 k

A paper producer in South Africa was having problems with the packing on its pumps leaking uncontrollably and damaging the pump shaft sleeve - lead

A South African company is preventing dust from escaping into the working environment and is saving thousands of dollars a year in the cost of repa

Upgrade from gland packing to a CDPN seal increases MTBF despite pumping a highly abrasive mix of sand and seawater slurry.

The mine’s Warman® F-frame pumps were sealed with gland packing which required 19 US gallons (71 litres) per minute of gland water per pu

A Namibian uranium mine had 24 Krebbs pumps sealed with gland packing.

A specialist mining company used gland packing in the feed pumps at their tailing processing facility.

A vertically integrated chemical and mining company had a poor mean time between failure (MTBF) on a water pump on one of its mining facilities in