Surging demand for valves and actuators
Rising demand from diverse process industries supports steady growth in global valves and actuators market
Sensor market is forecast to grow
Frost & Sullivan predicts the market for sensors will grow, largely due to the development of sensors with greater functionality
Adopting a holistic approach to safety
Didier Turcinovic, founder and President of the Safety Users Group, explains the importance of a holistic approach to safety management
A lifecycle approach to security management
Karl Williams outlines how a novel lifecycle approach to security management is setting a new process industry standard
Wireless plant and the process environment
Hartmut Wallraf, Chief Technology Officer with Invensys Process Systems Europe, Middle East and Africa, outlines where the technology is now and what the future holds for it
Vacuum component market ‘healthy’
Market is worth US$4.2bn, almost half of which is in Asia, has grown by 8 per cent
Dry technology: safe, clean, leakfree even under severest conditions

Growing costs and increasing environmental awareness are placing special
demands on fittings technology.

Leaks, for example, must be prevented more effeciently than ever before. Parker-Ermeto has faced this challenge and come up with EO-2, the fittings generation with soft sealing which provides the user with a number of important advantages:

  • Soft sealing to ensure optimal leaktightness and improved operational
    reliability.
  • Insensitivity to vibrations and pressure peaks.
  • Simple and fast assembly even without skilled manpower.
  • Reliable assembly control. 
  • Unrestricted repeated assembly.
  • Cost-saving assembly.

For the first time there is stainless steel direct assembly in the fitting
body without preassembly tool. Preassembly equals finished assembly and
offers:

  •  No special preparation of the tube is needed.
  • Problem-free replacement of sealing ring.
  • Easy handling.
  • Dual function EO-DUR nut with integrated sealing and retaining element. 
  • No addition cost for tools.

EO-2 is fully compatible with proven tube fittings systems with 24° cone in accordance with DIN 3861/ISO 8434.

Parker Hannifin GmbH, Tube Fittings Division Europe, is based in Bielefeld,Germany. www.parker.com