Description
Our O-Rings and Seals Division carries an extensive range of over 30 million O-Rings in the most common materials:
- Nitrile (Buna / NBR)
- Fluoroelastomer (FPM / FKM / Fluorocarbon / Viton®)
- Silicone (VMQ)
- Fluorosilicone (FVMQ)
- EPDM
- Chloroprene / Neoprene®
- PTFE
- Polyurethane (PU)
- PTFE Encapsulated Silicone and Viton® (FEP)
In addition to our extensive range, we also supply High Nitrile, HNBR, Aflas®, Butyl, Natural Rubber, Hypalon, and many others, available in a range of colours and Shore Hardnesses. For more demanding situations, we offer a range of Perfluoroelastomers / FFKMs, including Kalrez®, Chemraz®, Isolast®, and Perlast®. We can provide fully molded non-standard O-Rings up to 700mm ID with a full range of cross-sections in many materials, hardnesses, and colours without tooling costs and with tight lead times. We also offer Scarf Jointed and Vulcanised rings for static applications with non-standard sizes as cost-effective alternatives to molded rings.
Did You Know?
Niels Anton Christensen (16 August 1865 – 5 October 1952) was a Danish-American inventor whose principal invention was the O-Ring, the ubiquitous hydraulic seal. In 1933, from his basement, Christensen discovered through trial and error that a ring-shaped piece of rubber in a groove made a reliable seal for a piston sliding in a cylinder. He applied for a patent, which was granted approximately two years later.
