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Flexible Graphite Packings
20 September 2021
Flexible Graphite Packings
The expanded graphite comes from the hot expansion of the graphite powder. The expanded graphite is qualified by high carbon content C, greater than 98, 00% for the industrial grade graphite...
Carbon Fibres Packings
20 September 2021
Carbon Fibres Packings
The carbon fibers are synthetic materials coming from Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) or Rayon and characterized by high carbon content. The yarns made by carbon fibres can be...
Pump Packing
20 September 2021
Pump Packing
Carrara offers a large choice of packing for dynamic sealing applications – centrifugal pumps, reciprocating pumps, mixers and dryers. These compression packings are made with...
Valve Packing
20 September 2021
Valve Packing
Carrara offers a complete product range of graphite compression packings for valve applications. Graphite braided packings for On-Off, Quarter Turn Off and Control Valves flexible...
LDAR Program
03 September 2021
LDAR Program
Fugitive Emission VOC from equipment leak FERP Environmental Division of CARRARA S.p.A. is among the European leaders in designing and implementing monitoring programs of VOC (Volatile Organic...
Industrial valves and fugitive emissions: it is time to take stock for looking for a new perspective
12 July 2021
Industrial valves and fugitive emissions: it is time to take stock for looking for a new perspective
Introduction Industrial valves and fugitive emissions. A topic, that of the interaction between this component and its external environment, which has accompanied us with surprising regularity over...
Graphite Gasketing Sheet Planigraph® LGRHDI
12 July 2021
Graphite Gasketing Sheet Planigraph® LGRHDI
Planigraph® LGRHDI, just one gasketing sheet for operating pressure from vacuum up to 200 bar Planigraph® LGRHDI is the multilayer high-strength graphite gasketing sheet designed both for the...
GR8622 LOW E PACKING API 622
28 May 2021
GR8622 LOW E PACKING API 622
GRAPHITE PACKING style GR8622: designed for Low Emission Services! GR8622 is the low emission graphite packing for Industrial Valves API 622 3rd Edition approved suitable both as first equipment and...
DINACOMB N1706
19 May 2021
DINACOMB N1706
Dinacomb N1706, the evoluted packing Slurry pumps are widely used in transport of abrasive solids in industries such as mining, dredging, steel and so on and for this reason they are designed to be...
PLANIFLON® B13
29 April 2021
PLANIFLON® B13
Planiflon® B13, skills and passion for enhanced PTFE gasketing sheet! PLANIFLON® B13 by Carrara is a modified PTFE silica filled. That’s all? No, there is more and more under this...
VALVEcampus
10 December 2020
VALVEcampus
Carrara is proud to celebrate the first five years of the VALVEcampus Association of which it is a founding member. VALVEcampus is an Italian association of manufacturers of industrial valves and...
API std 622 3rd Edition style XCTR4 Evolution
09 July 2020
API std 622 3rd Edition style XCTR4 Evolution
API std 622 3rd Edition - Graphite Packing for quarter turn valves, style XCTR4 Evolution. The Product Family of packing qualified API std 622 3rd Edition is further enhanced with the new XCTR4...
Is SMART LDAR correctly applied today in Europe
30 September 2019
Is SMART LDAR correctly applied today in Europe
Is SMART LDAR correctly applied today in Europe? Introduction LDAR is widely used in Europe both in standard mode according to EPA Method 21 Technique (CWP Current Work Practice) and in SMART mode...
ISO 15848-BH-C02
20 June 2019
ISO 15848-BH-C02
ISO 15848-BH-C02 and API std 622 3rd Edition: the Packing with double Certifications. PGT4 GR8622, the graphite packing for industrial valves Low Emission service, achieved ISO 15848...
Carrara: API std 622 3rd Edition program
17 June 2019
Carrara: API std 622 3rd Edition program
The Carrara program API 622 involves the stem packing for Valves in accordance to the design API 600, API 602, API 603 e API 623. In the API standard design update, was recently...
Low Emission Packings
04 June 2019
Low Emission Packings
Carrara and about the carbon yarns, offers a great range of Low Emission stem packings according to different standard and requirements. Low emissions Stem Packing for On-Off and Control Valves:...
Graphite Gasket for Flange
07 May 2019
Graphite Gasket for Flange
Graphite Gaskets The graphite flange gaskets have a very low relaxation stress overtime. This technical data is measured according to DIN 52913. The test analyzes the residual load on the gaskets...
Graphite Valve Packing
12 April 2019
Graphite Valve Packing
Graphite sealing for valves The extension and the available equipment at the department Valvograph, which produces graphite sealing systems for Industrial Valves, place it among the first in the...
Industrial graphite gasket
04 March 2019
Industrial graphite gasket
Industrial graphite gaskets . This class of gaskets and graphite sealing set not always is able to fulfill the operating conditions because if the application is weakly oxidizing the...
Flange Isolation Kits
20 April 2018
Flange Isolation Kits
Carrara GSS has integrated its product range with the new line of Flange Insulation Kits GUARDIAN. In the range you will find a wide range of products both for more general...
OHSAS 18001
20 April 2018
OHSAS 18001
Another step forward. Carrara Global Sealing Solutions has obtained the OHSAS 18001 Certification. The important result has been obtained thanks to all the members of the organization, who cooperated...
Mase
19 February 2018
Mase
FERP, the Environmental Services Division of Carrara Spa, has achieved the prestigious MASE qualification for the implementation of the LDAR program. A further milestone in the history of FERP in the...
PTFE sealing BAM approved for Oxygen Service
15 September 2017
PTFE sealing BAM approved for Oxygen Service
PLANIFLON PT2105, PTFE CERTIFICATE BAM The modified PTFE  seal style PLANIFLON PT2105, suitable as stem sealing for  of all types of industrial valves and for ball valve seats, passed...
Fugitive Emission Highlight
04 March 2015
Fugitive Emission Highlight
Carrara works in the fugitive emissions field since 1994, when it became part of the Fugitive Emission Working Group of European Sealing Association. Carrara in its product range today includes many...