| Process Technologies Viton® Extreme sanitary gaskets and O-Rings are produced from formulated Viton® Extreme ETP-600S fluoroelastomer. This unique material is produced with Advanced Polymer Architecture. (APA) It represents a proprietary advance in fluoroelastomer technology developed by DuPont Performance Elastomers. Viton Extreme sealing elements exhibit excellent resistance to steam and to attack by an exceptionally broad variety of chemicals and fluids. They can solve the most challenging chemical applications in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Sterilization processes used by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food and beverage manufacturers frequently use steam or caustic chemicals or a combination of both. These aggressive conditions put special demands on commonly used sanitary gasket materials such as EPDM, silicone, PTFE and bisphenol-cured FKM. EPDM is capable of providing excellent steam resistance, but exhibits relatively poor resistance to some commonly used cleaning fluids. Seals made with silicone may provide good resistance to a wide variety of cleaning fluids, but have relatively poor steam resistance. PTFE seals offer excellent resistance to steam and chemical attack, but because of their plastic nature, can creep under stress. Bisphenol-cured FKM has good steam resistance but is less resistant to some caustic sterilization processes. Process Technologies offers its Viton Extreme compound 2001 in all sanitary gasket sizes for Tri-Clover® Tri-Clamp®Information provided by Process Technologies Inc |
