The two global players Klinger and VSP concluded a global collaboration agreement to make the PITA technology seeminglessly available at a worldwide scale. PITA was so far only introduced in North America, with multinationals within the Chemical industry using PITA.
“VSP is as much quality and service focused as we are”, explains Hans Houmark, Business Development Executive at Klinger Dichtungstechnik. “We both are driven by increasing efficiency and total cost of ownership for our clients. Additionally, as sustainability is a core value of Klinger´s Engineering for the Future, PITA is a solution fitting perfectly into that approach.”
Growing markets such as China have also increased their demand for lower fugitive emissions due to major multinational companies supporting this kind of environment improving initiatives. “PITA will benefit from the significant worldwide footprint and engineering expertise of Klinger to introduce PITA through their worldwide network”, summarises Reid Meyer, Director Engineered Products of VSP Technologies.
VSP developed PITA technology in 2005 to solve a common sealing need in gasketed connections: reliable long-term low emission sealing. Results have shown that PITA provides one of the tightest sealing products ever created. The Patented PITA construction results in a 100% expanded PTFE gasket with a fully encapsulated corrugated, stainless steel insert. Patented construction transforms conventional ePTFE into a “spring energised” PTFE gasket that maintains high tightness throughout thermal cycling in all chemical services.
PITA, as an environmentally safe and focused product, is another example of Klinger’s worldwide drive to increase sustainability; through environmentally safe design to bringing down fugitive emissions.
