Trelleborg Sealing Solutions in Bridgwater was founded in 1935 and was originally named “Wills Pressure Filled Joint Company” after its founder Percy Wills, following his invention of the gas-filled metal O-Ring. Bridgwater has developed in to a manufacturing facility specializing in the design and production of high performance seals in advanced PTFE materials to meet the performance demands of its customers across all markets segments.
Strengths:
- Customer focus delivering innovative high performance sealing solutions across every major market segment.
- Dedicated product specialist design teams.
- Lean manufacturing – six sigma black belt specialists
- In house material compounding capability.
- Fully equipped Test and R&D facility.
- Responsive, flexible manufacturing – employing quick seal delivery system.
Products
- Variseal®
- Wills Rings®
- Turcon®
- Varilip® PDR
Materials
- Variseal® Spring Energized Seals: Turcon® PTFE-based jacket materials energized with metallic springs for high integrity dynamic and static sealing.
- Turcon® Varilip® PDR: precision manufactured metal body and a mechanically retained Turcon® element delivering high performance sealing for rotary applications.
- Wills Rings®: the original metal O-Ring seals, withstanding extremes of pressure (ultra-high vacuum to 1,000 MPa) and temperature (cryogenic to +850 °C / +1,550 °F).
Industries Served
- Semiconductor
- Oil & Gas
- Aerospace
- CPI
- Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical
- Robotics
- Transport
Certifications
- AS9100 Rev C
- ISO14001
- OHSAS 18001
- NORSOK M-710