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  PTFE Envelope Gaskets have become more popular especially in industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and petrochemical industries, mainly because of the outstanding resistance. These gaskets are developed to meet the operational safety and product quality standards important to businesses involving sensitive or perilous products. PTFE envelope gaskets feature numerous advantages as a result of their exclusive design and enhanced operational parameters, which makes them suitable for use in severe and challenging conditions. What is a PTFE Envelope Gasket? A PTFE Envelope Gasket has thickness a central core of compressible material and an exterior layer of PTFE or Polytetrafluoroethylene. The flexibility it affords and the extreme chemical resistance make this design particularly suited to industrial use. Thus, the PTFE cover offers the gasket the protection it needs and guarantees that it will not be affected by chemical agents or high/low temperatures together wi...

  While using sealing in industrial application, it is always important to find reliable, efficient and safe sealing system. Over time, there has been change in the type of industries and thus the material used in vital operations such as gaskets. One such transformation that has occurred in the product line is the replacement of asbestos gaskets with non-asbestos gaskets. Due to awareness of health hazards related to asbestos products and inclinations towards environment friendly products non asbestos gaskets are in great demand in the market among various industries. In this blog post, we will dig deeper into the benefits of using Non-Asbestos Gaskets in industrial applications. 1. Health and Safety Concerns Another factor that has led industries to stop using asbestos is its severity to human health. Asbestos causes critical respiratory disorders such as lung cancer and asbestosis among individuals exposed to this material. Non-asbestos gaskets do not pose this risk, thus...