Garlock

Garlock is renowned as the global leader in providing high-performance fluid sealing products that make the world safer, sustainable and more reliable. Garlock, part of EnPro Industries Inc., is one of the leading companies in the field of high performance sealing technology and is considered to be a specialist for sealing critical, demanding media in innovative machine, engineering and construction and in the process industry.

Our company offers the best possible individualized technical consultancy and industry specific engineering competence in designing, producing, supplying and commissioning its sealing products. Garlock main goal is to ensure failsafe, sustainable and environmentally compatible machine and plant operation.

Our product range covers cut gaskets made of modified PTFE and fiber materials, shaft seals, bearing isolators, diaphragms, metallic gaskets, compression packing, hydraulic seals, graphite seals and valves. Garlock is represented in more than 90 other countries through distribution partners and specialist dealers.

Milestones:
 

• 1887 Olin J. Garlock founds Garlock
• 1923 CHEVRON®-Set for locomotive steam cylinders and piston introduced
• 1928 KLOZURE®, the first ever synthetic rubber shaft seal is introduced
• 1967 The GYLON® family is introduced
• 1979 BLUE-GARD® is introduced, the world´s first asbestos-free fiber flat seal
• 2007 GYLON BIO-PRO® is introduced
• 2011 Introduction of the labyrinth SGi™
• 2012 Centralization of the global production of GAR-SEAL valves at the facility in Neuss, Germany
• 2016 Introduction of GYLON BIO-PRO® PLUS
• 2017 Introduction of PS-SEAL® with GYLON® STYLE 3549
• 2018 Introduction of GYLON® EPIX

Facts & Figures:
 

• Industry: Sealing technology
• Products: Seals for static and dynamic applications and valves, such as shaft seals, labyrinth seals, stuffing box packaging, cut gaskets, graphite seals and valve
• Market Position: Leader for sealing solutions for critical and complex machine and plant construction as well as in the process industry
• Employees: 1500 worldwide