• Evertex Industries Private Limited

Asbestos Gland Packing

Evertex Industries offers Asbestos Gland Packing. This provides a dynamic seal for a rod, shaft or stem via a housing or gland, which is packed with resilient or semi-resilient material, thus providing a localised contact area, which offers a physical barrier to leakage. They are both, of dry as well as lubricated type. Properties the gland packing must possess: good chemical resistance to fluid contained; good anti-friction properties; should retain the self-lubricants; should not affect the shaft; should not get affected by the applied temperature; should be reasonably compressible and have good resilience; should not contaminate the fluid being contained. Gland packings are not an exact science as its performance depends upon many variables. The filling of packing is an art and results depend largely on manual skills. The "man with a wrench" therefore, can sometimes, be a dangerous person in the plant, responsible for scored rods, excessive down time and wasted packings. Evertex takes great care at the construction stage of its gland packings which leads to a better performance even under minor imperfections in the plant condition and fitment, however, certain preparatory precautions, correct procedure of fitment and correct selection of grade and size of the gland packings would help in achieving the best results.