HELICOFLEX® TEXEAL® Texturised Seal
Increase the overall sealing performance for your installations with TEXEAL®, the new patented texturing process, applied to HELICOFLEX®, already the resilient metal seal standard for high-performance sealing.
HELICOFLEX® TEXEAL® can help reduce operating costs during maintenance. It is a material innovation developed from decades of established sealing expertise.
Features & Benefits
- Decreased overall cost of assembly during design phase
- Reduced overall operating cost
- MTBF (mean time before failure) increase
- LCC (life cycle cost) decrease
- Sealing performance optimized without increasing tightening force (up to 10-12 Pa.m3.s-1)
- Lower stress on the assembly using the same tightness level
- Sealing performance maintained during thermal cycles
- Adaptable to a wide range of assembly dimensions
- Adaptable to groove sealing surfaces
- Choice of Materials
Product Applications
- Nuclear: reactor pressure vessels closure head, control rods, reactor coolant pumps (RCP), pressurizers, steam generator, spent fuel casks
- New energies: molten salts & solar plants
- Semiconductor: chamber, exhaust and other applications in PVD/CVD/etch and lithography processes
- Valves: body/bonnet sealing, seat sealing
- Steam generator seal
