Cartridge Seal Cuts Costs and Product Leakage
Replacing other more costly yet less efficient mechanical seals, and converting packing on pumps and rotating shaft equipment, the John Crane 4610 cartridge seal reduces maintenance and running costs,...
View ArticlePower Transmission Couplings Balanced to Handle Critical Operating Demands
The new Metastream TLK power transmission coupling from John Crane is ideally suited for large pumps, electric motors and turbine drives in critical process industry, marine and power generation...
View ArticleJohn Crane Improves Performance of Powerstream Couplings
John Crane’s Powerstream line of elastomeric couplings now offers higher performance, improved standard materials, additional sizes and a new coupling version.
View ArticleGetting Closer To Customers
Close proximity to customers, combined with the Swedesboro facility’s state-of-the-art design and equipment, have improved John Crane’s ability to provide new products, product repairs, service and...
View ArticleJohn Crane Receives Supplier Award from ITT/Goulds Pumps
John Crane is honored to announce its recognition as a Top Supplier Performer for 2002 from ITT/Goulds Pumps. A supplier for decades to Goulds Pumps, one of the fluid companies of ITT Industries, this...
View ArticleNew Catalog Available on RitePak® Packing
To meet the needs of those specifying the latest in flexible, resilient, and reliable packing solutions, John Crane has developed literature on RitePak Packings. The 12-page brochure highlights...
View ArticleWeyerhaeuser’s Rothschild Mill Uses Split Seal to Reduce Leaks
With excessive air-entrained stock in the headbox at Weyerhaeuser’s Rothschild, Wis. paper mill, maintenance engineers suspected air leakage through the packing in the fan pump. Installed in 1969, this...
View ArticleChange to Split Seal Technology Quickly Proved Its Worth
Although a Washington state pulp and paper mill had relied on traditional braided packing for nearly 75 years, the company sought a means to reduce high repair and maintenance costs associated with...
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Is It Time for an MTBR Standard?
In maintenance, just as in sports, you don’t know whether you are winning or losing unless someone keeps score. The “score” for many companies is the Mean Time Between Repairs (MTBR). However, unlike...
View ArticleSuitable Seals Lower the Total Cost
It is no secret that the cost of fixing pumps and related seal failure are among the highest recurring expenses in a maintenance budget. A recent study showed that one facility had repair costs of...
View ArticleThe Organic Growth of Six Sigma at John Crane Inc.
It has been said that deployment is one of the most critical elements of a successful Six Sigma* program. From top-down support and Champion Training to awareness efforts targeting all employees, the...
View ArticleMeet Today's Split Seals: Advances in Technology Further Reduce Maintenance...
The number of old pumps in operation today is staggering. Although the technology may be from yesteryear, these pumps found in the deep recesses of our factories to the far-reaching corners of our...
View ArticleJohn Crane Academy Seminars Now Available Online
The popular John Crane Academy seminars are now available online. A unique industry resource responsible for the training of thousands of professionals, the Academy was founded to expand the knowledge...
View ArticleJohn Crane Develops Live-Loaded Mechanical Packing Cartridge Seal
John Crane has developed a live-loaded mechanical packing cartridge seal — the Type LMPC seal — for static or dynamic sealing applications. The one-piece seal is mechanically loaded in the axial...
View ArticleIt's Getting Hot in Here: Seals for Hot Water Applications
Water used in the diverse industries served by John Crane varies in source from river water to a wide variety of treated waters. Regardless of the source, impurities present in water used by power,...
View ArticleItalians Recognize Benefits of John Crane's Valve Live Load Packing
Since the first half of 2005, John Crane Italy, with collaboration from the John Crane Morton Grove Packing Division, took on the challenge of promoting Valve Live Loading in the Italian petrochemical,...
View ArticleJohn Crane Receives Supplier Award from Goulds Pumps
John Crane has received a Top Supplier Performer Award for 2005 from Goulds Pumps Inc., a subsidiary of ITT Corporation.
View ArticleISOMAG Magnetic Bearing Seals Product Launch
John Crane has signed an exclusive distribution and licensing agreement with ISOMAG™ Corp. that provides them with the right to market and manufacture ISOMAG magnetic bearing seals globally. The ISOMAG...
View ArticleHow Condensate Kills a Seal
As today’s oil and gas industry continues to respond to the changing dynamics of a world economy, there is little argument that compressor reliability and uninterrupted operation are paramount and...
View ArticleInvesting in Innovation
John Crane’s Turbomachinery Group has invested $4.8 million (£2.4 million) in state-of-the-art seal testing facilities. The investment includes the company’s global test bay facilities in Slough (UK),...
View ArticleReliability Comes Standard
John Crane’s $4.8 million (£2.4 million) Turbomachinery Group investment program is already bringing direct benefits to customers with the formation of a new Gas Seals Reliability Group, tasked with...
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Free Guide to Increasing Pump Life
A major cause of pump failure is mechanical seal leakage. John Crane offers a comprehensive poster and guide for diagnosing the 12 most common causes of seal failure. The 23 X 26 inch poster contains...
View ArticleJohn Crane Reaches 200,000 Unit Milestone on Popular INTERFACE TM Reliability...
There is validity in numbers. Such is the case for John Crane's proprietary INTERFACE Reliability Management Software. Introduced in 1999 and currently being used around the world in 31 countries, the...
View ArticleHeavy-duty Slurry Seals offer critical performance with low operating costs
By working cooperatively with global slurry pump and rotating equipment manufacturers, John Crane has optimized the Type 5860 heavy-duty slurry seal for slurry pumps, mixers and other pieces of...
View ArticleSealing A Centrifugal Pump With Packing
In some cases, compression packing is used to seal light to medium duty pumps on applications that prove to be difficult for mechanical seals. The pump seal is formed by the packing being squeezed...
View ArticleJohn Crane and the Carver Pump Company Recently Set Out to Destroy Their...
According to Paul Richards, Marketing Specialist for John Crane, Carver Pump recently performed shock testing to discern how much destruction a pump and seal installed on a barge could withstand and...
View ArticleJohn Crane Helps Major Mining Company Reduce Pump Operational Costs by 70%
It goes without saying that maintaining equipment uptime in a mining operation is essential. But, for one of South America's largest mining organizations that processes sulfurated copper, reliability...
View ArticleSealing Multiphase Pumping Applications
Multiphase – or “tri-phase”– pumping applications have been growing in recent years, due in part to the increase in oil extraction activity. But the flexibility and economic feasibility of multiphase...
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