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Latty is testing its packing glands with methane
In order to sell packing glands to the north-American market, the Latty group needs to test their leak tightness with methane. The Latty group chose to perform these tests in France in order to make the operation easier.
API 622 is the only standard recognised by the north-American market to guarantee the capacity of sealing devices to limit emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) into the atmosphere. But this standard dictates that methane should be used as a test medium and European laboratories use helium.
Therefore, Cetim has set up a test bench in compliance with the standard’s requirements in order to meet Latty’s need to release its packing glands on the American market as soon as possible without waiting for any exchanges with American laboratories. Thanks to this test bench, a packing gland specifically developed for the oil industry was type-approved. “This packing gland is suited to more than 90 % of all applications used in the oil industry. In parallel, we are continuing to develop new packing glands for specific applications that we intend to test on the Cetim bench in the upcoming months”, stated Thierry Ledauphin, R&D manager at the Latty International production site (Eure-et-Loire, France).
Consult the full “Reference” sheet on the Cetim.fr website, “Prestations” (services) section, “References” space.
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