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Prevent Seizing. Protect Your System.

Expertise
2025/10/27
Filip Van den Eynde

Prevent Seizing. Protect Your System.

You want fast, reliable assembly in your vacuum system, connections that loosen, tighten, and maintain preload without damaging threads or halting production. Yet every technician knows the tension between careful work and the sudden moment when stainless steel threads seize and refuse to move.

Galling becomes the invisible antagonist: friction, heat, identical materials, and UHV conditions silently fuse threads together, even though it should never happen in a well-designed system. This leads to delays, broken bolts, contamination risks, and unnecessary maintenance that steals time, money, and confidence from your team. Our anti-galling solutions remove that risk entirely by combining optimized material choices for fasteners, and advanced coatings such as silver, gold, MoS₂ or WS₂. The plan is simple: choose the right alloy pairing, apply the correct surface treatment, follow controlled torque guidelines; and galling disappears before it can occur. With these steps, your assembly process becomes predictable, your components remain undamaged, and maintenance cycles shorten dramatically. We guide you through the selection, application, and integration process so you always know exactly which fasteners deliver reliability under HV, UHV, or high-temperature conditions. The result is a future where every fastener performs smoothly, your system stays clean and stable, and your team works with confidence instead of hesitation.

Choose anti-galling performance and let every connection in your system work as smoothly as your process deserves.

When engineering a well-functioning vacuum system, contamination and leakage are out of the question. With our clean, vacuum support, we ensure pure, continuous conditions in your critical installations.

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