News of Carco
20/12/2011 – New design tool
01/05/2011 – New opening for Carco!
Carco is proud to announce the opening of our new offices in Hamburg.
His opening represents a further step to serve better all our customers and to strengthen our presence in Germany and North Europe.
The office is located in the Stoertebeker-Haus, Borstelmannsweg 143 - 20537 Hamburg..
24/08/2010
CARCO becomes the sole distributor Dia.Com in Italy and Germany for the diagraphms
23/11/2009 - Largest tire making press in the world sealed by Carco!!
06/08/2009 - Carcoseal in hydropower
Carcoseal rotary shaft seals (ap/wt type suitable for pressure) were fitted beginning 2008 on the shafts of 4 kaplan water turbines, previously installed in a power station in Verona (Italy).
The application is critical since the generator is below water level.
To make sure that no water gets into the generator, air pressure at 0,8 bar is kept in the generator chamber by a compressor.
The seals have to keep water out of the generator and air leakage as low as possible; in normal running, compressor should inflate air in the generator chamber every 45 minutes.
Carco intervention was requested by the turbine oem (large multinational oem) as their customer was very unsatisfied after 2 years of poor performance of the original seals: the compressor was inflating air into the generator almost continuously and the risk of water getting into the generator was high; from 2006 to beginning 2008 the original seals had been replaced with the same brand several times with high maintenance costs and frequent turbine shutdown.
In february 2008 Carco staff fitted the Carcoseal kit made of 4 carcoseals with spacers for grease lubrication on the turbines shaft (diameter 240mm, 300 rpm); we fitted 2 Carcoseal kits in endless version in 2 turbines and 2 kits in split version in the other 2 turbines; the split seals were fitted with “isp gluing on site” system.
Carcoseals were supplied in h-nbr rubber compound for higher friction resistance.
We recently had a meeting with the customer, who informed us that all Carcoseals are performing well and compressor is running at a minimum.
On the basis of Carco long tradition in hydropower, we expect our seals to last more than 5 years.
20/07/2009 - Aramid fabric for improved seal performances
:Following our trend of working more on new projects with oems and taking the challenge on difficult repairs, Carco has developed new fabrics and rubbers to expand our product and application range:
Viton + nomex (our code z490)
In case of very high temperature and chemical attack, the traditional fabric (cotton) can suffer and become the weak part of the seal.
For these reasons carcoseal rotary shaft seals and carcotex v-packings are today available also in fkm viton + nomex.
Nomex is an aramid fiber, able to resist heat, flame and chemical attack.
Nomex is a registered brand from dupont.
Nbr + kevlar (our code s890)
When the application requires highest mechanical characteristics from the seal, kevlar fibers can give additional strenght.
Typical application is carcotex v-packings fitted in old hydraulic presses with ram surface showing bad roughness and deep scratches.
Carco can offer customized solutions to reach longer seal life and postpone press revamping; one of these solutions is carcotex in nbr + kevlar.
Nbr + kevlar offers excellent wearing resistance; it is recommended for ram surface in very bad conditions as kevlar is abrasive and might scratch the new ram.
Hnbr + kevlar (our code ht790) is available on request; hnbr offers higher abrasion resistance than nbr.
Non conductive viton
Carco was recently involved in a submarine project with carcoseal rotary shaft seals.
Customer’s main requirement was that the seal has to be electrically non conductive.
Carco had 3 rubber compounds tested at an italian university and a special type of fkm viton (red colour) on kevlar fiber showed the lowest level of conductivity.
We submitted the test results to the customer and got the approval for the fabrication of the seals.
For more information please contact sales@carco.it
20/07/2009 - More and more seals…..
Carco is proud to announce the installation of 3 new presses for extra large seals !
During the last months Carco installed in its Italian factory the following compression moulding presses:
1000x1000 mm plate with vacuum chamber
1600x1600 mm plate
2600x2600 mm plate with vacuum chamber
The 2600x2600 mm plate is one of the biggest presses for rubber seals in the world !
14/07/2009 - We are growing…..
To follow his business growth, Carco extends its factory with additional 1500 sqm.
This extension enables Carco to expand the molding department installing 3 new large presses from 1,0 to 2,5 m diameter and to extend the finishing department to improve the handling and the storage of the Xlarge seals.
17/07/2009 - New ISP kit from Carco to glue on site
Carco has developed the “ ISP - gluing on site “ system to satisfy the need of reducing dramatically the time and the cost needed to replace seals in some critical applications.
The use of endless seals has always been compulsory to guarantee best security against leakage, but the need of speeding up the maintenance brought the idea to offer a way to use seals from Carco in split version and bond them on site, without disassembling the complete machinery.
The correct way to glue our seals on site leads to a seal performance which is equivalent to the endless seals.
Enclosed our “Isp” presentation and relevant fitting instructions.
We recommend to have the “Isp“ training to make sure that you get the best out of our “Isp - gluing on site“ kit.
Please contact sales@carco.it for details.
Download CARCO ISP GLUING ON SITE pdf
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10/05/2008 - Carco supplying Carcotex vee-packings in aflas for tyre industry
Our technical dept was recently involved into a tyre press revamping by a major tyre manufacturer.
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15/04/2008 - Carco promotion into wind power market
On 1st April 2008 Carco participated a poster presentation at EWEC 2008, prestigious conference for the wind power market.
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13/03/2008 - Marine industry brochure
Following our expansion into the shipbuilding market, CARCO presents its new dedicated brochure.
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11/03/2008 - Carcotex/sp/sg/split performing well in huge press
Carco sales force in Italy recently visited the largest steel mill in Europe.
2 production lines for Oil&Gas pipelines with large hydraulic presses are working.
The largest press was built in 2001 by the most important OEM in the world.
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01/12/2007 - With an OTD (on time delivery) performance of 97 %, CARCO is recognized by its Customers as one of the Best-in-Class supplier.
To achieve this performance, CARCO strongly worked in the following key areas:
- Human resources flexibility
- Visual Factory
- Machineries un-saturation
- Dedicated team
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