Sealing Systems Business Unit

With its new 'Sealing Systems' Business Unit, Advanced Products is now your partner for the entire Sealing Systems Process: from Concept, to Design and Development, through Qualification, and finally throughout Production. We provide expertise in complete project management, engineering, production, assembly, and test so you don't have to.

Advanced Products specializes in the analysis, design, and manufacture of seals. Often, an Advanced seal is mated with other components such as flanges, clamps, connectors, valve bodies or other unique machined parts, that when assembled together, create a complete sealing system. We provide these complete sealing systems for a broad range of industries including sub seal oil & gas and semi-conductor fabrication equipment.

Every sealing system we produce for our customers receives complete project management to ensure all aspects of the program run smoothly and efficiently. The project manager is your single point contact; however, you also have access to our engineering staff throughout the program.

Our project manager coordinates the responsibilities of all functional teams including Engineering, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Quality Control. We believe this philosophy of a dedicated project manager is key to the success of the program.

The Company's technical strength comes from a broad-based R&D and engineering staff with specialties across many scientific disciplines and engineering fields. Advanced's technical capabilities are equally balanced by its productions skills. Our engineering capabilities include:

• Fatigue and stress relaxation analysis
  
• Complete sealing system design, development and qualification testing
  
• Classical Stress Analysis
  
• Non-Linear Finite Element Stress Analysis, 2-D and 3-D

An important part of the development process of a sealing system is the rigorous testing of the new design. We perform comprehensive qualification testing of the sealing systems as well as 100% functional testing of production units prior to delivery if desired.

Our extensive testing capabilities include:

• Pressure testing: 10^-5 torr to 15,000 psi
  
• Leakage testing: 10^-11 mbar liter/sec
  
• Temperature range: Cryogenic to 1500°F
  
• High cycle fatigue testing
  
• Dynamic wear, friction and torque testing
  
• Load versus deflection seal testing

We are also able to design elaborate test fixtures and equipment to meet the testing requirement of your unique sealing system and functional requirements.

With a reputation for innovative designs, high quality products, responsive support, and an over 50 year history of producing customized solutions for unique Extreme Environments, you will find Advanced Products a vigorous partner in both development and production of your Sealing System.

The Company's Sealing System Business Unit offers fully engineered systems for specialty applications over a wide range of challenging environments.

Advanced Products Company, 33 Defco Park Road, North Haven, CT 06473. Tel: 203-239-3341; Fax: 203-234-7233.