The DIN11864 is a relatively new design fitting considering the Tri-Clover being over 80 years old. This new DIN standard is gaining interest in both the biopharmaceutical and the food industry in Europe. The design is interesting because it features over-compression protection, a problem we all know about nowadays. We offer a wide selection of compounds for the O-ring inside the fitting covering both elastomers and PTFE/FEP type materials. All materials are validated for pharmaceutical use. We are also offering screens and orifice plates for this new standard.
Ensuring product purity and process integrity across the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries.
European leader in FDA-compliant gaskets and validation components. Ensuring product purity and process integrity across the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Our screen gaskets are not used the same way as conventional filters, although they can be considered a filter. Conventional filters are built differently and have many layers to prevent particles to pass through, these can reach efficiencies of almost 100%. A particle comes in many different shapes.
For example, a hair has a diameter of Ø 0,1 mm but the length can be centimetres long. If the hair arrives perpendicular to the screen it might pass a 100 mesh screen. With a conventional filter, the second or third layer will prevent the hair to pass. Retention’s of standard screens are calculated according to international standards using perfectly round glass spheres. Our screens are only one layer and therefore they cannot be considered the same as a filter. Each screen gasket has a high-performance gasket made out of one of the validated compounds that we use for our standard Sanitary Gaskets range.
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