Customer Gains with Reduced Service Calls and Field Complaints

The air compressors manufactures - Arempee Compressors were using metallic gaskets to seal the valve plate assembly to cylinder head in top block assembly of the compressors. However, the metallic gaskets do not create 100% sealing between mating surfaces and are expensive which cause field complaints of air and oil leakage. Loctite 596 silicone gasketing compounds help them to solve this problem. They covers surface imperfections and seal potential leak paths which create 100% sealing between mating flanges. The field complaints of sealing failures were eliminated - creating further savings in servicing costs for Arempee.

Outperforms Asbestos Gaskets and O-rings

A leading manufacturer of gas and oil fired boilers and boiler systems in Korea was using Asbestos Fiber Gaskets to seal the exhaust cover and O-rings to seal the burner housing. But these gaskets were expensive due to unique shape and size of flanges and they failed to give 100% sealing on flange surfaces and relaxed over time. Also, asbestos is not environment friendly and the customer wanted to move to more environment friendly option. Loctite 5702 Silicone Gasket Maker was successfully tested for this application.