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  • PDF is a custom engineering and Manufacturer of End Seals for Presses and Ink Chamber Systems

  • End Seals of Highest Quality with Performance Guarantees

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  • High quality, accurate, and consistent end seals are critical to minimize ink leaking, optimize blade life, and achieve smooth ink lay-down.

  • Our end seals are made with the highest quality materials, produced on state of the art equipment by specialists with the technical expertise to insure reliable, customized results for each

  • unique situation.

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  • Performance Design end seal products come with a performance guarantee. Custom design enhancements for end seals to fit specific ink chamber systems come at no extra cost.

  • The Right Solutions to Your End Seal Related Problems

  • A number of problems and associated costs can occur from end seal leaking on flexo presses or coaters. These can include ink waste, downtime for changeovers, reduced doctor blade life,

  • scored anilox rolls, and high flexo end seal replacement costs. Whether you have an older flexo press or a brand new one, chamber leaks cause frustration and reduce press efficiency.

  • The right end seal material, the right fit, the right best practices, and the right housekeeping can greatly minimize press downtime and lower total costs.

  • The Right Materials

  • PDF offers multiple types of foam, rubber, felt, plastic and composite materials in various thicknesses, densities and colors, to provide the broadest range of products available.

  • Our end seals are customized to meet specific customer requirements. We have many success stories of finding a better sealing material or more cost effective solution, with similar sealing

  • results, than some of the O.E.M. end seals such as molded rubber items.

  • The Right Seal Designs

  • We have found that end seal failures often are caused by inaccurate designs. Corrections can be achieved by slightly modifying the size of the end seal, the radius and/

  • or changing the end seal bevels so that the doctor blades change their level of contact to the anilox rolls. PDF has developed a unique methodology to make sure that the end seals

  • we produce are the right fit for their specific application.

  • PDF's End Seals Have All the Right Benefits 

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  • Send us a sample of your current end seal, a dimensional drawing, or a CAD file. We may also ask you for some additional information to make sure we have fully understood your requirements

  • and if there are any areas where you are looking for superior performance.

  • Our end seal specialists will then produce no-charge samples and ship them to you for trial to make sure we have the best solution. If you want to try multiple materials in looking for the optimal

  • answer to your requirements, this is no problem.

  • Whether it is reduced leaking, longer end seal life, ease of handling, reliable service or lowering total costs, PDF has the answer, our goal is to earn your business through innovative solutions,

  • reliable service and value.

  • Situation: Performance Design Flexo helps printers reduce costs with new end seal solutions and services.

  • PDF dual angled seal design incorporates two memory materials.

  • End Seals with consistent sealing power over much longer periods of time.

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