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Employee spotlight: 33 patents in 33 years

Lannie Dietle received his 33rd US Patent on Sept. 1, 2015, during his 33rd year of employment with Kalsi Engineering. All but three of the patents are related to advancements […]

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Our new 4.5-inch high pressure swivel seal test fixture

Much of our rotary seal testing is performed on our battery of standardized 2.75” horizontal test fixtures. While the 2.75” fixtures are excellent for comparing the performance of one seal […]

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Updated information on Kalsi Seal breakout torque

The Kalsi Engineering rotary seal handbook has been updated to revision level 24. The most significant revisions involve Chapter C12, “Kalsi Seal breakout torque” and Chapter D21, “Sticky drawer effect”. […]

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Announcing a Seal handbook revision

Our online Seal handbook consists of individually revisable chapters, to facilitate updating, and to minimize file size. The handbook has now been updated to revision level 20.

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Mr. and Mrs. Kalsi connect through music

As we learned from the last blog posting about Dr. Kalsi and his wife, Ise, they met at the University of Houston. Soon afterwards, they discovered a common interest in […]

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New rotary seal simplifies equipment design

Kalsi Engineering introduced the 673 series Axially Constrained Seal™ (ACS) in a blog entry in October of last year. We have continued testing this advanced rotary seal in conditions that […]

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A video tour of our seal testing lab

This is a video tour of our rotary shaft seal testing facility. Tests are planned and directed by the team of engineers who are responsible for developing and supporting our […]

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