Use the highest quality food grade and sanitary gaskets and O-rings to prevent leaks and contamination on your process lines.
Gaskets are an essential “glue” for your pipe systems.
Where would you be without sturdy, reliable, and most importantly, sanitary plastics that hold up to the high temperatures and pressures of your process environment and minimize your risks not only of leaks, costly material wastage, and potential equipment failures but also of contaminants threatening the purity and safety of your products?
American Stainless provides the sanitary and food grade gaskets you need for secure PVF connections and better, cleaner process lines.
Gaskets do the most important work of holding your pipe and tube together.
A sanitary gasket fills gaps between the surfaces of pipe sections and PVF components to provide tight, leak-proof seals. What makes gaskets especially important for sanitary applications are their smooth, crevice-free surfaces, which are easy to clean and prevent bacterial growth as well as outside contamination of product lines to ensure safer and higher quality products.
Use the right glue to hold your sanitary piping systems together.
Sanitary Tri-Clamp Gaskets
These sanitary gaskets provide a tight, hygienic seal specifically for tri-clamps, making them ideal for leak-proof tube, pipe, and hose connections in pharmaceutical applications involving high temperatures and aggressive chemicals.
Metal Detectable Gaskets
Leak-proof, highly durable, and resistant to steam and high acid solutions, these gaskets are made from PTFE combined with atomized and passivized stainless steel, which enables them to be detected by X-rays and metal detection equipment.
Food Grade Gaskets
Gaskets made from PTFE and food-grade silicone provide excellent chemical resistance and high-temperature tolerance, making them ideal for keeping food and beverage process lines both leak-free and contaminant-free.
PTFE Envelope Gaskets
These sanitary gaskets add a PTFE outer envelope around an inner core of silicone or EPDM, providing both the sealing properties of the inner core material and the high chemical resistance of the outer envelope material.
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Industrial Applications of Sanitary Gaskets
Gaskets of all shapes and sizes use sanitary thermoplastics and elastomers to stand up to the rigors of process environments where protecting fluids from outside contaminants is as important as preventing leaks. Industrial environments in which these gaskets are essential include:
Biotechnology
In applications requiring aggressive cleaning agents, sanitary gaskets provide chemical-resistant seals that ensure contamination-free environments for bioengineered materials.
Food and Beverage
Across water treatment filtration systems for food and beverage process lines, sanitary gaskets ensure a clean, sanitary seal in reverse osmosis systems that purify water for further use or in bottling processes.
Petrochemicals
Highly robust sanitary gaskets such as envelope gaskets and tri-clamp gaskets maintain secure, leak-proof connections that can withstand aggressive chemicals, corrosive substances, and high temperatures.
Taking Care of Your Sanitary and Food Grade Gaskets
For the vital roles in preventing leaks and ensuring purity sanitary gaskets play in industrial processes, it’s essential to take the best possible care of them to ensure reliable performance and maximize their performance lifespan. To get the most out of your gaskets, follow these best practices:
Installation
- Ensure proper gasket alignment with the flange, fitting, or clamp to ensure a strong, sanitary connection.
- Refer to the manufacturer’s specifications and use a calibrated torque wrench to avoid over-tightening or under-tightening, which can risk wear or leaks.
- Double-check that your sanitary gasket is centered prior to tightening.
Operation
- Incorporate gasket inspections into your routine maintenance schedules to detect issues such as wear, cracks, or deformation and ensure continuous safe operation and minimal downtime.
- Monitor your gasketed connections for any signs of leaks or reduced performance, especially in critical areas where leaks could cause contamination or equipment failure.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- Routinely disassemble and clean your gaskets, especially food-grade gaskets, according to industry standards and manufacturer guidelines.
- Make sure to use appropriate cleaning agents compatible with your gaskets’ materials.
- Replace gaskets according to manufacturer guidance on gasket lifespan, even if they do not appear to be worn out or damaged.
- Store spare sanitary gaskets in a clean, dry, and cool environment away from direct sunlight and chemicals.
Source Your Sanitary Gaskets From the Best
American Stainless does more than stainless steel PVF products. Our complete product offerings include sanitary and food grade gaskets in all the sizes and shapes your processes might call for to ensure sanitary operations and quality products in accordance with your industry’s strictest regulations and most stringent standards.
Fast Customer Service
We do everything fast, and we do it right. Whatever your needs, our customer service team is there for you as soon as possible to provide extensive industry experience and help you choose the right type and size sanitary gaskets from our vast inventory of PVF products.
High Quality, Competitive Prices
Who ever said quality has to be expensive? Our connections to leading PVF manufacturers and efficient supply chain practices mean you can count on us to provide sanitary and food grade gaskets you can rely on at prices that won’t strain your budgets.
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We work to fulfill every order quickly and accurately so your team spends less time waiting and more time doing. We deliver on your schedule, not anybody else’s, and every order is custom-packaged and meticulously organized so you can find what you need as soon as it arrives.