37-ecat Product Catalog
80-services Services
39-magazine Magazine
36-downloads Downloads
35-contact Contact
47-chevron-right
20-close First-Hand News?

Obtain news and background information about sealing technology, get in touch with innovative products – subscribe to the free e-mail newsletter.

Ensure purity in your food & beverage application with our Simmerring® Radiamatic HTS II

Our process industries solutions solve some of the biggest challenges in the food and beverage industry. Learn how we helped a United States manufacturer meet the demanding needs of their customers.

The food and beverage industry is very demanding with strict purity standards for anything that may come into contact with the product. This holds true for the gearboxes that are used in many applications within the industry. With a diverse portfolio of products specially designed for the process industries, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies is well-positioned to support your unique needs.

The Challenge

Gearbox

A leading producer of hygienic-designed gearboxes was looking for a shaft seal capable of withstanding the chemicals, media, and corrosion resistance with IP69K protection that meets hygienic standards as it would come into direct contact with food. IP69K ratings are given to equipment and seals based on their ability to withstand intensive cleaning with harsh chemicals, along with high pressures and temperatures. IP69K products are particularly useful and sought after for applications where sanitation is the primary concern such as those in the pharmaceutical, or food and beverage space.

Furthermore, the end users of the equipment required that they meet US FDA, European EHEDG, and NSF which is an independent certification so they can show their customers that they only use the highest quality hygienic products in their manufacturing process. When you are working with an application where items manufactured will be consumed by a person or animal your seal has to perform at a high level under stress without failure to prevent any contamination from getting into the product.

The Solution

After continued struggles, the manufacturer reached out to one of our distributors in the United States who quickly recruited the support of our experts. As a first step, our team conducted a detailed analysis to understand the application and the unique requirements of how they were utilizing their equipment.

Once our distributor in the United States reached out our team was quickly able to review all the unique aspects of the gearboxes to come up with a solution. We identified a specialized solution from our process industries portfolio: the Simmerring® Radiamatic HTS II. The Radiamatic HTS II shaft seal rings offer multifaceted options for use in the process industry. This special development made of PTFE is distinguished by its lip's low contact pressure on the shaft and, as a result, low frictional losses.

With its design specially for dynamic sealing in rotating components at high temperatures fast circumferential speeds, the PTFE material offered outstanding chemical resistance to the variety of process liquids, gases, and cleaning agents used in the gearbox. This quick development allowed the gearbox manufacturer to quickly get back to making quality products that meet all the requirements their customers had for them. All of this is possible while the manufacturer received around $35,000 of annual cost savings and a reliable source of their seals for both the manufacturing and repairing of their gearboxes.

Login with your access data

* mandatory field

Forgot your password? Click here to reset.

Or

Don’t have an account yet? Register now!

You've logged in successfully.

Register and get access to exclusive content

Your benefits

  • Download exclusive documents such as Solution Sheets
  • Live Webinare/On-Demand Recordings on the beverage and food industry
  • Virtual tours of production facilities
  • Resistance tools for selecting the right material

Security Level

* mandatory field

Or

Do you already have an account? Continue to Login.

Thank you. Your subscription was successful.

We have sent you an e-mail. Please click on the included activation link to complete the registration.

Have you forgotten your password?

Please enter your email address to reset it.

* mandatory field

The form has been successfully sent.

We have sent you an email. Please click on the included link to assign a new password.

Benefits of the Simmerring® Radiamatic HTS II

  • Well-suited to hygienic applications
  • Comes in materials with high chemical, temperature, media, and corrosion resistance
  • Provides increased food safety
  • Provides you peace of mind
  • Meets FDA, EHEDG, and NSF standards
  • Reliable supply chain and value for easy maintenance and repair of equipment

Further Articles With These Taggings

Seals without PFAS?

19.09.2024

Fraunhofer IWM explores the impact of a potential PFAS ban with Freudenberg experts

Read more chevron_right

Material Expertise

Is Downtime Costing You Money?

06.09.2024

Learn how our expertise allowed us to get a major food and beverage manufacturer in the United States back up and running at peak efficiency.

Read more chevron_right

Food and Beverage Industry Material Expertise

Freudenberg Xpress® Delivers Rapid Solutions

27.06.2024

Discover how Freudenberg Xpress® rapidly got a US steel mill back into production.

Read more chevron_right

Material Expertise Freudenberg Xpress®

Shaft Repair Sleeves: The Perfect Compliment

19.06.2024

Don’t leave money on the table, our shaft repair sleeves deliver an excellent return on investment by extending the lifespan of your equipment’s shaft.

Read more chevron_right

Material Expertise

Solving Seal Failures in the Construction Industry

15.05.2024

Learn how our modified radial shaft seals (oil seals) solved sealing failures for construction compactors and power trowels.

Read more chevron_right

Material Expertise

Simriz® 498 O-Ring – Rising to the Challenge

29.04.2024

Learn how a US manufacturer used our Simriz® 498 O-rings to overcome seal degradation and reduce complexity in their pumps used in the oil & gas industry.

Read more chevron_right

Material Expertise

Overcoming Seal Failures With Freudenberg EPDM 291 Material

21.02.2024

How a major US manufacturer in the health and well-being industry used Freudenberg EPDM 291 material to solve their sealing failures while delivering considerable cost-saving.

Read more chevron_right

Pharmaceutical Industry Food and Beverage Industry Material Expertise

The Foods of Southeast Asia

13.02.2024

Climate change, a growing population and rising incomes: All three factors are changing diets in Southeast Asia. This is also having an impact on the food industry.

Read more chevron_right

Sustainability Food and Beverage Industry

A Very Hot Item: Thermoplastics For Up To 1,200 Degrees Celsius

17.01.2024

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies develops extremely temperature-resistant plastics for electric cars.

Read more chevron_right

Automotive E-Mobility Material Expertise
Newsletter

First Hand News

Best of all, keep up with the latest developments
with the Freudenberg Sealing Technologies newsletter.

Subscribe to newsletter