AESSEAL South Africa Case Studies

On this page you will find case studies from South Africa, and the surrounding areas

Major savings for SA company
The South African confectionery manufacturer Premier Foods was having problems with a seal on its licorice mixing machine.
SA firm makes big savings with CDPN
Constant seal failures followed by downtime and loss of production were causing problems for the South African company Woodchem SA.
Major savings for SA company
A South African coal mining company is making significant savings following a decision to send its CDPH heavy duty slurry seals directly t
DMSF seal the answer at South African plant
The installation of the AESSEAL® DMSF seal and SW2 water management system at the Ford plant in Pretoria, South Africa, has imp
Major water savings at South African paper company
A South African pulp and paper company is saving almost 18,000 litres of water a month following the installation of the AESSEAL® DISP
AESSEAL product brings big savings for South African company
The installation of an AESSEAL® FGDSS-N single slurry seal is saving a South African mining company thousands of dollars a year
CURC solves reliability problem for SA company

The persistent failure of a competitor’s cartridge seal was causing problems for the chemical processing company Investchem in Johannesburg.

Major reliability improvement with CSSN seals

The installation of the AESSEAL® CSSN™ cartridge seal has resulted in a dramatic improvement in seal reliability for a South African chemical compa

CDPN seal the right fit for faulty slurry pump
The installation of an AESSEAL® 80mm CDPN double mechanical seal and a FLOWTRUE® water unit was the answer to a pers
Reliability upgrade improves reliability 700%

A major steel producer in South Africa were experiencing unacceptable leakage and reliability with one of their lime slurry pumps.

Catalogue of issues lead to failures on power station valves

A South African power station were experiencing regular outages leading to expensive downtime along with poor emission control and high energy loss

Increased reliability saves over 1,500,000 ZAR

With an unreliable pump seal, major South African refinery turned to AESSEAL® for assistance.

Improved pump reliability for oil refinery

A major oil refinery in South Africa had an unreliable mechanical seal on a cooler water pump.

Fast delivery, reliable solutions

During start-up of a new plant in South Africa, the customer had repeated problems with a mechanical seal that repeatedly failed.

Over 20 million litres of water saved in 5 years for just 2 pumps

A latex producer in South Africa was consuming a large quantity of water in API Plan 54 seal support systems (quench to drain) in 2 pumps.

Trapeziodal Packing improves reliability 3-fold

A place of greater safety with AESSEAL SCMS

Shaft fretting and product leakage into the atmosphere were causing safety issues and problems of product contamination for a South African&nb

Reliability upgrade improves Mean Time Between Failure from 1 week to 8 months.


Major chemical company SASOL were experiencing premature seal failure on one of its process pumps.

Reliability upgrade improves Mean Time Between Failure by 5 times

Major chemical company SASOL were experiencing premature seal failure on one of its process pumps.

Reduced maintenance after change to mechanical seal

A change from gland packing to an AESSEAL® Convertor II™ mechanical seal has helped the South African energy and chemical company Sasol

Quality of service key to AESSEAL contract

The rapid response of the AESSEAL® team to an urgent request for a replacement seal led to the award of a new contract from a South African chemica

LabTecta the answer for SA chemical company

Constant motor failures on cooling tower motors were plaguing a South African chemical company.

Cleaner plant with AESSEAL gland packing

The replacement of a competitor’s gland packing system by the AESSEAL® Gland Packing Style 745TP has resulted in a cleaner environment f

DMSF seals halt water leakage

Premature seal failure was causing barrier water and product leakage in a South African chemical plant.

AESSEAL product solves seal failure problem

The installation of an SISR seal with Plan 62 was the solution to the persistent seal failures being experienced by a South African chemical c

Mondi Meets Sustainability Targets

International packaging and paper group Mondi has installed AESSEAL water management systems cutting water usage at the plant by more than 60,000 k

Trapezoidal Packing Improves Reliability

A paper producer in South Africa was having problems with the packing on its pumps leaking uncontrollably and damaging the pump shaft sleeve - lead

Massive water savings with new seal

The South African company Sappi Saiccor was having problems with water wastage in a country where water conservation has become a vital considerati

LabTecta ends dust pollution problem for SA firm

A South African company is preventing dust from escaping into the working environment and is saving thousands of dollars a year in the cost of repa

5 years without failure and a ZAR3.2million saving

Upgrade from gland packing to a CDPN seal increases MTBF despite pumping a highly abrasive mix of sand and seawater slurry.

Saving over 1 billion gallons of water

The mine’s Warman® F-frame pumps were sealed with gland packing which required 19 US gallons (71 litres) per minute of gland water per pu

Huge water savings for uranium mine

A Namibian uranium mine had 24 Krebbs pumps sealed with gland packing.

Mechanical Seal upgrade improve reliability and saves more than ZAR 580,000

A specialist mining company used gland packing in the feed pumps at their tailing processing facility.

Five times improvement in reliability

Experiencing poor reliability a mining facility in South Africa, a vertically integrated chemical and mining company turned to AESSEAL®

ZAR84,000 Saving with reliability upgrade from packing

A vertically integrated chemical and mining company had a poor mean time between failure (MTBF) on a water pump on one of its mining facilities in

AESSEAL system eases cost pressures for African company

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