Seal Repair Division

Apex Sealing has decades of seal repair experience. From start to finish, our main goal is to get your seal repaired to like-new condition, while reducing customer cost and downtime.

People

  • Our experienced staff is committed to giving our customers comprehensive solutions quickly.
  • Diverse network of domestic and international suppliers that allow Apex to provide high quality parts, quickly and cost effectively.
  • Field service, evaluation, training and direct end-user consultations as needed.

Process

  • Thorough, documented seal breakdown
  • Seal analysis concentrated on root causes of failure
  • All repair alternatives are detailed to give customers best options for complete restoration or exchange
  • Engineered design of replacement parts
  • Meticulous reassembly of seals to like-new operating condition
  • All seals rebuilt to OEM standards

Tools

  • Diamond-charged lapping tables with precision seal surface lapping to 2-3 lightbands
  • Surface grinding- All face materials
  • Ultrasonic cleaning tanks
  • High temperature insertion plates
  • I.D. Bellows pressure testers
  • Universal cartridge test stand for all industry types
  • Monochromatic lights
  • Optical flats
  • High pressure bead blasting
  • Digital spring load tests
  • General machining
  • Close tolerance measuring instrumentation
  • Metal buffing and polishing station

Resources

  • Diverse seal parts inventory to expedite repairs faster.
  • Custom engineered components, seal faces, springs, machined parts, setting clips, O-rings, etc.
  • Complete ANSI cartridge repair kits for the most common manufacturers.
  • Large inventory of competitors parts
  • Quick sourcing of domestic and international seal parts.
  • Comprehensive restoration capabilities for mixers and agitator seals of all sizes.

Service

  • Apex typically quotes all repairs within 48 hours of receipt. 
  • Apex returns all repairs with no freight charges for ground shipments
  • Free estimates and evaluations and the industry's most aggressive price structure.
  • For competitor repairs, you pay only the wholesale costs, parts and labor (not arbitrary percentage of new).
  • When needed, we provide detailed failure analysis, new seal exchange programs, engineered solutions to troublesome applications or aggressive replacement costs for non-repairable seals.

Reliability 

  • Highest quality of raw materials
  • Detailed material specs
  • Custom designed pressure test units
  • Certified instruments of measure
  • Large library of competitive seal and pump data
  • Every cartridge repair is pressure tested and returned to like-new operating condition