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Multi‑material construction and turnkey sub‑assembly production
From a single small moulding to a large diameter seal or even a complex custom assembly, James Walker has the experienced workforce and flexibility of production to be able to facilitate rapid prototype turnaround and productionisation of final designs.
Our capabilities include multi-material bonding, one-piece moulding of components up to 2.25m diameter, plus a continuity moulding process that offers components of infinite length and diameter.
Following the moulding of either elastomer or engineered plastic materials we can carry out further machining operations or build components into sub-assemblies to customer specification.
Years of experience and expertise aided by the latest FEA modelling and 3D CAD packages ensure that our design engineers generate effective solutions within a realistic timescale, forming an engineering partnership with our customers’ own engineering and design teams.
The design phase may also include recommendations on the re-engineering of associated elements in order to improve overall performance and reduce manufacturing or maintenance costs.
Our intimate knowledge of materials science enables us to engineer solutions using a diverse range of elastomer-based bonded composites.
We bond all standard elastomers, including high-performance grades, to a variety of materials – achieving intimate bonds of very high strength.
Today, many of the components we now regard as ‘standards’, such as end cap seals for the oil and gas industry, involve the successful bonding of metal and elastomer.
Our success in these techniques is the result of many years of process experimentation and development. This expertise is now fully integrated within our manufacturing process at a quality level unmatched by our competitors.
Our expertise includes the manufacture of bonded components involving;
Our KlickFix cartridge seal, a sequentially deployable multi‑lip sealing cartridge, is an excellent example of precision engineering in different materials to create the necessary components which are then assembled into a final product – ready to ship, fit and deploy.
This innovative alternative to mechanical seals and compression packing for sealing pump shafts and other rotating plant, comprises precision metallic parts in stainless steel, PTFE and HNBR elastomer.
We can design, prototype, manufacture and test in-house or manufacture components to customer drawings and assemble, test and supply finished assemblies. We supply such assemblies to a range of customers across defence, power generation and oil & gas applications.
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