Industries Served
Garlock provides innovative sealing solutions across the markets and industries we serve.
By combining the most innovative products with unparalleled service and a strong environmental commitment, we deliver solutions that improve plant productivity, reduce costs, and comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations.
Browse the markets below to learn more.
Battery Manufacturing
From mineral extraction, refining, manufacturing, and recycling, Garlock solves complex sealing challenges throughout every step of the battery manufacturing process.
Our innovative solutions enhance productivity, cut costs, and help you meet strict environmental standards in your operations.
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Hydrogen Energy
Garlock’s advanced sealing solutions are engineered to meet the most demanding testing standards, making them perfectly suited for complex applications within the hydrogen energy sector. Our flagship products not only meet TA-Luft standards but have also undergone extensive testing by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) for safe use in explosive environments. With Garlock, you ensure safety, compliance, and reliability in your hydrogen energy operations.
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Garlock offers a wide range of application-specific sealing products strategically targeting Semiconductor manufacturing process challenges.
To protect purity and product quality, our solutions are made to handle extremely sensitive systems, such as chemical exhaust tool hook-ups and ultrapure water systems. Our products withstand highly volatile and aggressive chemicals, high temperatures, and high pressures, keeping plant personnel and equipment safe from hazards and unanticipated disruptions. We design sealing solutions for long service life and minimal maintenance, reducing costly downtime and inefficient operations.
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Chemical Processing
Garlock recognizes the potential hazards and critical need for personal safety in the chemical processing industry, while also taking into account the need for regulatory compliance, reduced downtime, and ease of maintenance.
Garlock designs and manufactures high-performance sealing solutions for a wide range of chemical processing applications, including pumps, valves, reactors, flange joints, pipelines, and more. By combining innovative products with unparalleled service, we deliver sealing solutions that improve plant productivity and safety while reducing operational costs.
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Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Projects
Garlock has the industry experience and expertise to allow it to partner with engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors to deliver sealing solutions with unmatched safety, reliability and resource management for a wide range of EPC projects.
Our representatives will work directly with your engineering and design teams to identify the most effective sealing solutions for fluid transportation systems, improving production and reducing down-time for the end user while safeguarding employees and sensitive equipment. We offer pipe sealing products, metallic gaskets, butterfly valves and expansion joint systems suited for standard and custom applications.
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Food and Beverage
Garlock sealing solutions provide exceptional performance in food and beverage applications, delivering unsurpassed product integrity, traceability, and safety, as well as reduced downtime.
Our food-grade products are built with high-quality, safety-focused materials that are designed to minimize leakage and reduce costly repairs and downtime. Featuring exceptional wear resistance, our food-grade gasket and sealing products also withstand extreme temperatures, aggressive materials, and vigorous cleaning methods.
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Marine
Garlock offers a diverse and highly specialized selection of sealing solutions specifically designed to increase safety, reduce downtime, and promote longevity of the international marine sector.
Our innovative sealing solutions are used in a range of marine-based applications from stationary oil drilling platforms to military ships. We also offer a wide array of technical field services that bolster our marine partnerships. Our vast network of trained surveyors, managers, and distributors are standing by to support your needs in the field.
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Mining
To help companies more profitably supply the raw materials needed to power the economy, Garlock’s heavy-duty sealing solutions increase safety and uptime, reduce water and energy costs, and extend service life in mining applications.
Garlock sealing products are built for heavy-duty performance and reliability in even the most formidable conditions, providing reliable service through exposure to abrasive materials and high-pressure environments.
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Nuclear
Garlock provides solutions to nuclear-specific sealing problems by combining the most innovative products with unparalleled service and environmental commitment, thus improving plant productivity, reducing costs, and complying with increasingly stringent environmental regulations.
OEM and Customized Solutions
Garlock provides original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with proven, reliable, customized, and safe sealing solutions for complex piping arrays and diverse applications, reducing development costs and improving safety.
Our highly trained, dedicated engineers will work with you to create a sealing system fit for your needs and available equipment space, including thoroughly testing the component to ensure maximum reliability and safety.
Oil and Gas
From the bottom of the sea to the top of the refinery, Garlock designs and manufactures a broad range of premium sealing solutions for the oil and gas industry with a focus on safety, product integrity, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency.
Garlock programs for the oil and gas industry include solutions for on-site maintenance, turnkey emission monitoring and repair programs, Integrated Pollution Prevention Control reporting, comprehensive plant sealing, specialty projects, and low-emissions valve packing. Each solution offers a cost-effective approach to operational efficiency and ease of maintenance.
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Pharmaceutical
Cleanliness, traceability and compliance with FDA/USP regulations are absolutely critical to avoid contamination in pharmaceutical processing. Essential to achieving these goals are the seals, gaskets and fluid path components used throughout the entire process.
As the global leader in high-performance sealing solutions for pharmaceutical and bio-processing applications, we work closely with process engineers, maintenance staff and operations executives to develop innovative materials and designs that address the challenges unique to this industry.
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Power Generation
Garlock’s advanced sealing solutions deliver reliability, safety, and reduced downtime in the power generation industry, with a focus on the basic human needs that are met with electrical power.
We offer advanced solutions for coal, natural gas, fossil fuel, gas turbines, and more. Garlock products combine high-performance, technology-driven fluid sealing performance with industry expertise and a commitment to environmental sustainability.
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Primary Metals
Garlock high-performance sealing solutions provide unmatched safety, durability, and uptime in the temperature, pressure, and contamination extremes of primary metals manufacturing.
From oil seals to help improve machine efficiency, to metallic bearing isolators to block contaminants and help extend equipment life, Garlock delivers sealing solutions for the stringent demands of the metals industry.
Durable, reliable, and high-performing, our seals and gaskets help to improve efficiency, lengthen bearing life, and reduce maintenance time and costs.
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Pulp and Paper
Garlock's sealing solutions reduce downtime, increase efficiency, conserve resources, and improve safety in a wide variety of pulp and paper processing applications.
Garlock sealing products are built for heavy-duty performance and reliability in even the most formidable conditions, providing reliable service through exposure to abrasive materials and high-pressure environments.
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Water and Wastewater
Garlock sealing products deliver safe, durable, and easy-to-maintain solutions that recognize the critical importance and regulatory requirements of water and wastewater processing facilities.
Our sealing solutions help eliminate water flush, excessive movement, and the erosion and corrosion risks posed by thick sludge, chlorinated water, and other common industry materials.
We also offer consultation and support for virtually every area of water management, including municipal, industrial, stormwater, wastewater, environmental, and drinking water.
Click here to download a case study for Style 206 Expansion Joints used in a brine concentrator.