“Why get custom die cut gaskets when there are plenty of off-the-shelf options?”  It’s a question we hear quite often, and in our experience, there are numerous situations where custom gasket manufacturing simply makes sense – even when there are off-the-shelf alternatives out there.

If you haven’t considered going to a custom fabricator for your custom gaskets, here are some situations outlined by our Expert Gasket & Seal team where it can save you time, money, or both!

5 Times When Custom Die Cut Gaskets Make Sense

1. When you want to stock up for less.

Are you expecting to place a big order, or looking to stockpile parts against some future need?  Having a company simply run off a big order all at once is often the cheapest option – particularly if they’re local enough that shipping charges aren’t a major factor.

2. When official OEM parts are too expensive.

Custom gaskets aren’t always wholly original.  When a manufacturer is over-charging for their officially-branded replacement parts, simply having replacements manufactured to spec is an entirely viable option.  All you need is an example of the original part(s) and they can be easily recreated.

3. When your machine OEM is out of business.

This is a common scenario:  You have machinery -particularly custom machinery- in your production facility which is still working fine, but its original manufacturer can no longer supply replacement parts.  Rather than scouring the Internet for costly after-market parts, , just have replacements custom-made.

4. When you want to guarantee quality.

Anyone who manufactures products in America knows that there are always cheaper alternatives overseas.  However, cheaper is -of course- not always better.  When quality matters and your gaskets need to have a high build quality with tight QC, partnering with an experienced manufacturer is almost always the best choice.

5. When you want to try out multiple solutions.

What if you’re designing a product, and you aren’t sure what gasket design or material will be the best option?  That’s when partnering with a custom gasket manufacturer can be truly invaluable.  Prototyping services allow you to experiment with designs, speeding R&D while still keeping costs low.

Get Custom Die Cut Gaskets That Meet Your Needs

Expert Gasket & Seal has the experience and the machinery to make your custom gaskets, large or small, and in any amount.  Contact us today for a quote!

When choosing their sealing products, industrial companies must depend on firms able to provide the ideal solution with tight tolerances. One mistake in the fabrication of sealing system products can lead to significant problems for the manufacturing firm. And that’s why many are now partnering with Expert Gasket & Seal. In this latest post, we’ll explore four benefits of choosing custom rubber gaskets from Expert Gasket.

1. Gaskets Built from CAD Files

Rather than having to depend on the manufacturer to fabricate from a word description, industrial firms can work with Expert Gasket & Seal for sealing solutions fabricated directly from CAD files. The client can simply send the Expert Gasket team a .dxf file directly, thereby ensuring their sealing solution is built precisely to the standards required.

2. Rapid Design Enhancements

For companies requiring an upgrade or changes to their original CAD file, the team at Expert Gasket & Seal can offer the ideal response with no tooling charge. They can modify the sealing product design in a quick timeframe so that the manufacturing process isn’t interrupted. The Expert Gasket team will craft the new part quickly to ensure that the client has the right part on time.

3. Custom Gaskets in a Range of Materials

When clients turn to Expert Gasket & Seal, they’ll have access to a complete range of gasket products in a broad array of materials. This ensures that whether they require rubber gaskets, Teflon gaskets, Durlon Gaskets, or FDA gaskets, Expert Gasket & Seal can provide the ideal product for their unique requirements.

4. Affordable Pricing

Choosing a trusted specialist such as Expert Gasket & Seal can also help companies consolidate the cost of their custom rubber gaskets. The firm’s experts understand how to complete complex manufacturing work at reduced cost and within a short turnaround time to provide the perfect service to growing organizations. The team’s manufacturing service is built around providing lasting value and long-term gasket performance. It’s how Expert Gasket & Seal became the leading name in the market today.

To discover more on Expert Gasket & Seal and the company’s full range of services, contact their team now. Trusted experts are standing-by to help custom craft rubber gaskets for your firm.

The manufacturer a company chooses for their custom gaskets can make all the difference in terms of the quality of the manufacturing process. Gaskets must be designed to withstand specific temperature and pressure ranges, and only by choosing the ideal custom gasket manufacturer will the ideal product be found. In this latest post, we’ll explain more on four questions to consider before working with a custom gasket manufacturer.

1. What is Your Experience?

The manufacturer should have decades of experience within the manufacturing marketplace. This experience will help their team to make the right choices along the manufacturing process and will ensure they have the ideal response to any building challenges they might encounter. Long-standing market experience will also be crucial in helping maintain reasonable manufacturing costs.

2. Which Material is Required?

Depending on the type of manufacturing required, specific materials may be necessary to get optimal performance from the gasket. Working with the manufacturer, companies should analyze the type of custom gasket material required for their project. It’s important the manufacturer has access to this material at the ideal price point.

3. Can You Meet Our Specific Parts Demands?

When choosing specific parts for their in-house systems, companies must work with a manufacturer that can meet their demand levels. For example, a company might require hundreds of parts within a quick timeframe. And this might be too much of a burden for some manufacturing companies to meet. Make sure that the company selected has the workforce and the resources to meet the scale of demands required.

4. Can You Guarantee Turnaround Times?

Oftentimes, needs for custom gaskets arise on short notice, and this means the manufacturer must be able to respond with quality products built within strict turnaround times. Make sure that the amount of time to manufacture the product is discussed and solidified early in the process. This will help keep everyone on the same page as the process moves forward.

The trusted team at Expert Gasket & Seal are available now to help guide the manufacturing process. To learn more on the custom gasket manufacturer and their services, contact their team today.

Here at Expert Gasket & Seal, we pride ourselves on being able to come up with custom gaskets and sealing solutions for practically any challenge a client presents us with.  Thanks to our wide range of manufacturer partners, our in-house production facilities, and our expert staff there truly are very few problems we can’t solve.

As a result, we have a great selection of custom gaskets and sealing products available, including:

Gasket & Sheet Products

Our primary stock in trade is, of course, gaskets – either off the shelf or custom-created from our wide range of material options.  Depending on your needs, we can work with high tech Durlon Products, silicone, rubber, PTFE (Teflon), Viton®, Neoprene, and more.

Need to work to exact specifications?  We have products which will pass FDA requirements for food, drug, and beverage manufacture.

Mechanical Seals

Metal is another option.  We have a full range of stationary, spring-loaded, and rotary seal types.  State of the art Advanced Sealing International Single and double-cartridge seals, multiple spring, bellows-type, ProTec Bearing Isolators, and more are also available.

Braided Packing and Hydraulic Seals

We have all the braided packing products you could want for pumps and valves, with bulk ordering options available.  This also includes O-Rings and other hydraulic seals, as well as less common variations such as V-Rings and lip seals.

Custom Molded Rubber Parts

One of our specialty services which keeps our clients coming back is our ability to create almost unlimited types of custom-molded rubber parts.  Very often, if a customer has a need for a part which doesn’t exist, we can just design it and manufacturer it ourselves!   Whether it’s a simple joiner or spacer, or a more complicated design, if it can be made of molded rubber we can probably made it happen.

Specialty Teflon Seals

Need movable seals with rotary or reciprocal action?  We have a special selection of PTFE parts for exactly those situations, including solutions from both Tri-Tec and TexPoly.

Related Sealing Products

We can flesh out your designs with expansion joints, rubber or PVC tubing, joint sealants, tape, and more.  We’re here to fulfill your sealing needs, from top to bottom.

Custom Rapid Prototyping

Don’t forget about our prototyping services!  Thanks to our Flashcut die-less cutting system, we can quickly create prototypes straight from raw sheets of material, based on simple CAD files.  We can work off your designs, or you can collaborate with our expert engineers to refine your designs until you have the perfect custom gaskets or other parts.

Expert Gasket & Seal has stood the test of time, providing the best in sealing solutions to companies across America for decades.  Whether your next job is large or small, contact us for a consultation!

For many manufacturers, Expect Gasket & Seal is their “secret weapon” when it comes to obtaining the right custom gaskets for their applications.  We may not be one of the best-known names in the business, but for decades we’ve provided businesses across the country with the best in custom gaskets, seals, and other specialty rubber parts.

This reputation has taken a long time to build, but now we are extremely proud of how many long-term customers we have.  There are plenty of reasons they keep coming back to us, for project after project.

Six Reasons to Choose Custom Gasket & Seal for Your Custom Gaskets

1. Excellent Value

Thanks to our many years in business and close ties to some of the biggest materials manufacturers in the industry, we’re able to offer exceptional value on both custom and bulk gasket manufacturer.  This is also due to the wide variety of services we provide in-house.  By avoiding outsourcing and owning our own equipment, we can pass those savings onto our customers.

2. Fast Turnaround Times

We’ve always prided ourselves on being able to fulfill orders quickly and accurately.  Again, this is largely thanks to our in-house capabilites.  Even other gasket manufacturers sometimes come to us to help with difficult applications.

3. Wide Selection of Materials

Finding the right material for each application is one of our top priorities.  We have direct supply deals with many manufacturers, allowing us to offer the correct product to solve your sealing problem.

4. Experts On-Staff

We don’t simply make products based on specs handed off to us.  We have a staff of gasket experts and engineers who love to take on a challenge, or find a custom solution for a problem others cannot solve.  Combined with our deep stock of materials and manufacturing processes, there’s very little we can’t accomplish.

5. Rapid Prototyping

One of our favorite pieces of equipment is our Flashcut die-less cutting system.  It can create finished products within minutes, cutting raw sheets of material straight from a provided .dxf CAD file.

6. Molded Rubber Services

Along with our custom gaskets and seals, our facilities can manufacture just about any custom-molded rubber parts you can imagine.  This is just another way we can help solve engineering challenges which other companies can’t tackle.

Get Top Service and Value from Expert Gasket & Seal

For any job large or small, or even in huge volume, Expert Gasket can be your go-to source. Contact us directly for a full consultation!

For many manufacturers, Expect Gasket & Seal is their “secret weapon” when it comes to obtaining the right custom gaskets for their applications.  We may not be one of the best-known names in the business, but for decades we’ve provided businesses across the country with the best in custom gaskets, seals, and other specialty rubber parts.

This reputation has taken a long time to build, but now we are extremely proud of how many long-term customers we have.  There are plenty of reasons they keep coming back to us, for project after project.

One of the aspects of our business here at Expert Gasket & Seal that makes us stand out as a custom gasket manufacturer is the wide variety of materials partners we work with. This is what allows us to serve so many different industries – in almost all cases, we can find a material for their seals which gets the job done.  If necessary, we’ll custom-prototype seals until we find the perfect fit for a client’s needs.

This allows us to truly go above and beyond your average custom gasket manufacturer, and it’s the reason that our steady clients come back to us for project after project.  As an example, these are just some of the materials manufacturers we work with:

ADVANCED SEALING INTERNATIONAL

ASI is one of our go-to suppliers for mechanical seals, such as rotary and cartridge-mounted sealing solutions.  Their specialty is creating sealing solutions for the most challenging applications.

AMERICAN BILTRITE LTD

American Biltrite is primarily a rubber manufacturer, one of the most popular sources in the nation for industrial-grade rubber products.  Through them, we stock a wide variety of rubber sheets for our prototyping and custom seal manufacturing.

CHEMSTAR MECHANICAL PACKING

Chemstar is the top source for braided mechanical packing products.  Their extensive selection of braided packing materials combined with quick delivery help solve customer sealing problems quickly.

DIVERSIFIED SILICONE

As the name suggests, Diversified is our main source for sheets of silicone products of all varieties.  Silicone is another highly popular material for our work creating custom gaskets and parts, and their affordable range of silicone sheets makes it possible.

FIBREFLEX PACKING

Fiberflex is one of the few manufacturers left making vegetable fiber sheeting, which is saturated with glue-glycerin for extra strength and reliability.  This product is excellent for applications where “green” solutions are desired!

KURIYAMA OF AMERICA

Kuriyama is well-known globally as a top supplier of rubber, thermoplastics, and metal hoses.  Their vast stock and range of products has often made the difference in fulfilling a customer’s specific needs!

TRI-TEC SEAL

If our clients need PTFE (Teflon) rotary or mechanical sealing solutions, Tri-Tec is our go-to source.  The uniquely low-friction and hydrophobic properties of PTFE make it indispensable in some applications.

Expert Gasket Is the Custom Gasket Manufacturer with The Solutions to Your Sealing Challenges

Between our decades of experience and huge selection of materials, there are few engineering challenges we can’t solve.  Contact us today for a full consultation!

With the never-ending consumer and business demand for new products, the engineering challenges which can face new product development are countless.  For every new product being designed and created, there will always be problems that need solving.

If those problems include custom gaskets or other custom die-cut or Flashcut parts, Expert Gasket & Seal should be your partner for solutions.  With over fifty years’ combined experience in creating custom gaskets and seals, we have the range of materials and technologies needed to tackle any challenge.

Why Choose Expert Gasket & Seal for A Wide Variety of Custom Gaskets and Solutions

1. Many Product Types

We don’t limit ourselves simply to rubber or fiber gaskets, as some fabricators do.  We have a wide variety of state-of-the-art gasket materials, including specialty PTFE materials such as Durlon 9000 and Durlon 9600.  Our equipment is capable of creating shapes from a wide variety of other non-metallic gasket materials as well.

2. Vast Materials Selection

Not sure which material is right for your application?  We’re here to help!  We have partnerships with the biggest names in the materials industry, allowing us to craft parts and seals from many different materials.  We stock a wide variety of rubber sheets in various thicknesses, including Silicone, Viton®, Neoprene, Nitrile, EPDM and more. We also fabricate a wide range of compressed gasket materials such as Durlon 8500, Durlon 7900, Durlon 8600, and others.

We know gasket materials.  Allow us to use our qualified selection of proven products, to solve your sealing problems.

3. Rapid Prototyping 

Our die-less Flashcut system is just one more way we offer exceptional value in overcoming engineering challenges.  Using a .dxf CAD file, our Flashcut system will create parts and prototypes as quickly as you can design them – and at low cost.  Dimensional and material changes are easy to make and don’t require tooling.  We will work with you to create prototypes from a variety of materials and designs until the right combination provides proven results.

Get More Value from Expert Gasket & Seal

There are plenty of companies offering custom gaskets and seals, but few have the same range of talent, knowledge, materials, and superior customer service as Expert Gasket & Seal.  Contact us today to consult on your next product under design!

When you’re trying to bring a new product to market, delay is the last thing you want. With so many companies all trying to innovate and catch the public’s attention, those who can hit market first are most likely to succeed. Anyone who follows can potentially be seen as an also-ran.

The issue, of course, is that at the same time, customers demand high-quality products that have been well-tested. This means any R&D and prototyping project must walk a tightrope between speed and quality. The gold standard is being able to increase both at once. When you work with a custom gasket manufacturer capable of making a wide variety of rubber and non-metallic parts quickly and efficiently, using a die-less cutting system, that’s exactly what you get.

Here at Expert Gasket & Seal, one of the centerpieces of our work is our Flashcut system, which allows you to take your designs to market faster than ever before with custom rubber gasket and parts.

Four Advantages of The Flashcut Die-Less Custom Gasket Cutter

1. Simple setup

The Flashcut system cuts gaskets or other rubber and non-metallic parts from sheet materials. There’s no need to create dies, molds, custom cutters, or any type of tooling. It simply takes designs straight from standard .dxf CAD files and makes them a reality.

2. Numerous material choices

Flashcut can work with many common materials including rubber, Teflon, sponges, soft plastics, compressed gasket sheets, and more. Whatever material best suits the needs of your product is available and can be worked with easily.

3. Rapid prototyping

If you know you need a certain custom gasket or rubber-like part, but need testing to determine which material is best for your needs, Flashcut can handle it. Materials can be swapped out quickly, or CAD files adjusted, to make many prototype parts in a single day if necessary.

4. High precision

Because it’s computer controlled, Flashcut can achieve RMA class 1 or better tolerances, even when working with difficult materials such as sponge. Further, unlike traditional dies and molds, Flashcut-created products have perfectly straight edges – there’s no “hour glassing” or other deformation associated with molded rubber or plastic.

Expert Gasket & Seal Has Decades of Experience as a Custom Gasket Manufacturer

Expert Gasket & Seal has decades of experience producing the custom gasket parts your next project needs to succeed. Contact us today for a full consultation on making your product a reality.

With so many suppliers of custom gaskets to choose from, why work with Expert Gasket & Seal?

It’s a fair question, particularly in these hyper-competitive times when so many competitors are offering cut rates online. Expert Gasket & Seal offers a wide variety of leading custom gasket solutions, as well as having a level of expertise that’s truly second to none.

What Makes Expert Gasket & Seal Different Among Vendors Of Custom Rubber Gaskets

Unparalleled Experience

With over fifty years’ combined experience, Expert Gasket & Seal has always been laser-focused on ONE thing: providing the best in gasket and other sealing products. Gaskets aren’t a sideline for us. They are our business. We specialize specifically so that we can deliver the best possible results in sealing solutions, every time.

A Hands-On Approach

We aren’t a “what you see is what you get” company simply selling off-the-shelf products in bulk. We are sealing specialists who work with you to find – or develop – the perfect gaskets to meet the needs of your project. We love a challenge!

Rapid Prototyping and Development

Thanks to our revolutionary FlashCut system, we can develop, prototype, or mass-produce custom gaskets in an extremely short amount of time. This computerized system can take designs straight from a standard CAD file and cut them from almost any rubber material, including Neoprene, EPDM, Nitrile, Silicone, Viton® and others. It’s one of ways we’re able to so effectively develop custom rubber gaskets for our clients time after time.Plus, beyond gaskets, we can custom-make practically any shape from a variety of rubber compounds you can dream up. If your product requires a specialized shape with different features, we can make it happen!

Extensive Industry Partners

Thanks to our long history, we’ve cultivated contacts with many of the most important names in sealing materials and products. This allows us to offer a huge range of possibilities in raw material. Our partners include:

• American Biltrite
• Apex Sealing
• Chemstar
• Diversified Silicone
• Fibreflex Packing
• Tri-Tec
• Kuriyama
• WARCO
• Durlon Products

This means we’re also able to work effectively in “niche” fields such as medical, food preparation, mil-spec, or aerospace. We have access to materials for practically any job.

Get the Best in Custom Gaskets From Expert Gasket & Seal

No other custom rubber gasket company offers the same range of services, products, and hands-on support as Expert Gasket & Seal. Contact us today to learn more!