Informed Buyers, Increased Awareness and Preference, Active R&D Program,Industry Leading Support, Life Cycle Aspects Drive Inpro/Seal To Record Bearing Isolator Results
While other companies continue to declining sales and operating losses, Inpro/Seal Company reports sales and deliveries for calendar 2004, are the best in the company’s 27 year history by more than 16%. Though other factors come into play, the firm attributes much of this phenomenal success to the increasing worldwide interest, acceptance and preference for Inpro/Seal branded bearing isolators, including new products and product enhancements that continue to increase customer’s plant productivity with measurable bottom line results.
ROCK ISLAND, IL (PRWEB) January 4, 2005 -- In this day and time when
companies continue to report declining sales and operating losses, Inpro/Seal
Company, the Rock Island, IL, based manufacturer of bearing isolators is pleased
to report that sales and deliveries for calendar 2004, are the best in the
company's 27 year history by more than 16%.
Factors
Though other
factors come into play, the firm attributes much of this phenomenal success to
the increasing worldwide interest, acceptance and preference for Inpro/Seal
branded bearing isolators, including new products and product enhancements that
continue to increase customer’s plant productivity with measurable bottom line
results.
Product Enhancements
With a very active R & D program,
developments include: the OM 32 that optimizes oil mist applications by
eliminating stray emissions, environmental and housekeeping issues; the Air
Mizer™ - PS a dry sealing system provides a positive seal in applications were
dry particulates, powders and bulk solids are handled, processed, packaged and
stored; IEEE-841 motors that use bearing isolators as part of their
specification and the standard for bearing protection; the VBX-H Design that
protects machine tool spindle bearings from coolant, chips, humidity and heat;
and the only product that protects rolling element bearings on paper machines
from the wet end to the dry end.
Informed Buyers
According to David C.
Orlowski, CEO of Inpro/Seal, the holder of some 40 patents and considered by
many as the “father” of bearing isolation technology, “Through our ongoing
efforts to educate and inform, more and more end users are finding out that they
have had misconceptions about sealing devices and that contact seals are not
their only option when it comes to protecting bearings. And when find out that
bearing isolators provide levels of protection previously unavailable in any
kind of bearing protection device with bottom line implications, they quickly
become a convert.”
Life Cycle Aspects
Orlowski continued, “Before the
bearing isolator or Inpro/Seal was introduced, bearing protection was limited to
lip seals, face seals and other types of contact seals. Problem was that a
rubber lip seal with a maximum useful life of 3,000 hours (4.1 months) was used
to protect rolling element bearings with a design life rating that exceeded
150,000 hours (17 years). Contact or lip seals are subject to wear and have an
unknown, unpredictable service life. Their short operating lifetimes, which can
be as little as 1,000 hours, means that end users have to contend with
unnecessary catastrophic equipment failure and downtime. Bearing isolators, on
the other hand are non-contacting and do not wear out. And, as rotating
equipment is routinely maintained and repaired, the bearing isolators can be
used over and over for many years.”
Energy Aspects
Orlowski concluded,
“When engaged with a rotating shaft, each contact seal, (lip seal and face seal)
consumes, on average, 147 watts of power while operating. To show how
significant this can be, if every bearing isolator that Inpro/Seal shipped in
2004 was used to replace an energy consuming lip seal, the energy savings alone
would total in excess of twenty five million dollars. Then add to that the costs
associated with downtime and now you can see why more and more end users are
switching to bearing isolators. Bearing isolators, on the other hand are
non-contacting and do not consume energy.”
More On Motors
Since the
Federal mandate for the use of premium efficiency motors (EPAct) was put into
effect, more and more end users have opted for a significantly more reliable
IEEE-841 Motor, developed by the Institute of Electrical Engineers. The IEEE-841
standard was written to establish additional guidelines to improve motor
reliability, efficiency and performance. A very important feature of these
motors is bearing protection. Realizing that the most efficient motor is one
that runs reliably and the avoidance of a single motor failure more than pays
for the entire motor, the IEEE -841 Motor has become the industry
standard.
VBXX-D, The Next Generation
When Inpro/Seal introduced their
original VBX™ series fourteen years ago, it provided end users with a way to
eliminate the root cause of premature equipment failure – contamination entering
the bearing environment – and dramatically increased productivity and
reliability in the process. Since then tens of thousands have been installed in
plants around the world. Today, the VBXX-D the next generation in bearing
isolators has taken hold.
The result of extensive field testing and
laboratory trials, with direct end user feedback, the VBXX-D™ has upgraded
design features, advantages and benefits that provide levels of protection
previously unavailable in any kind of bearing protection device. Once installed,
end users obtain the latest and best non-contacting labyrinth sealing technology
to improve plant uptime and reliability with an ROI that more than doubles
previous results.
Industry Leading Internet Support
Inpro/Seal has
also invested heavily into web sites dedicated to the education of bearing
isolation technology with much downloadable information. When an end user visits
www.inpro-seal.com or www.bearingisolators.com they will find a wealth of
information related to both Inpro/Seal and bearing protection, including:
specific applications, case histories, data sheets, facts and questions,
specifications and more. Interactive spreadsheets include a Cost Justification
Worksheet, that quantifies the effectiveness of bearing isolators in rotating
equipment and Contact Seal Energy Consumption Calculator. Simply to complete, an
end user merely fills in the blank to calculate ROI and benchmark repair costs.
About Inpro/Seal
Inpro/Seal Company is the originator and the world's
number one manufacturer of bearing isolators, used to protect motor and pump
bearings, machine tool spindles, turbines, fans, gear boxes, paper machine rolls
and many other types of rotating equipment. Additional applications include the
sealing, handling, processing, packing and storage of dry particulates, powders
and bulk solids.
Over one and one half million of Inpro/Seal's original
bearing isolator designs are in operation in process plants worldwide, where end
users continue to report significantly reduced operating costs with increased
productivity and reliability. Protected bearings have proven to run 150,000
hours (17 years) or more, eliminating the need for costly maintenance and
repair. Documented cases show that a plant can more than double the
mean-time-between failure (MTBF) and reduce maintenance costs by at least half,
with users reporting an extremely high Return On Investment (ROI).
As
the recognized global leader in bearing isolator technology, Inpro products are
marketed to the aerospace, automotive, petroleum, refining, nuclear, power
generation, metalworking, food processing, grain processing, chemical, water,
wastewater treatment, metalworking, hydrocarbon processing, HVAC, pulp and
paper, mining, mineral, ore processing and general industrial
markets.
Spreadsheets
Interactive spreadsheets that calculate ROI,
Contact Seal Energy Consumption and other costs are available at www.bearingisolators.com
Signoff
For more
information on Inpro/Seal Bearing Isolators, including a FREE brochure entitled
“Introduction To Bearing Isolators” contact Terri Hageman at: Inpro/Seal
Company, P.O. Box 3940, Rock Island, Illinois 61204. Phone numbers are: (800)
447-0524 or (309) 787-4971. Fax number is: (309) 787-6114. Website: www.inpro-seal.com or www.bearingisolators.com
FROM:
The Mark Baker Company
4124 Quebec Avenue N
Minneapolis, MN 55427
Mark Baker (763)
537-7540
FOR:
INPRO/SEAL Company
P.O. Box
3940
Rock Island, IL 61204
David C. Orlowski (309)
787-4971
(800) 447-0524
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