Tube Fitting Advantage
The Swagelok Tube Fitting Advantage
Proven design, manufacturing excellence, and superior raw materials combine to ensure that every Swagelok fitting meets our customers’ highest expectations. When properly installed, Swagelok’s two-ferrule, compression-grip tube fittings produce a repeatable, leak-tight seal, even after being reassembled multiple times.
See how Swagelok tube fittings help you reduce leaks and improve your operations:
The Lowdown on Leakage
Choosing the most reliable fittings and installing them correctly can save you money and make the workplace safer. Consider the many costs and consequences of leakage:
Lost Production
Especially important in offshore oil where laws already limit production to a specific number of days per month
Off-Specification Product
Can be produced inadvertently due to improperly calibrated or operating instruments; material must be reworked, sold at reduced price, or disposed of
Degraded Work Environment
Oil drippage can cause accidents; emissions can be expensive, dangerous — even illegal
1. Better by Design
We outperform other fittings in three key areas — tube grip, gas seal, and vibration resistance.
Repeatable, leak-tight connections
Swagelok tube fittings have a grip-type design that uses a unique “hinging and colleting” action to achieve optimal performance in three key areas.
- Tube grip: hinging and colleting action provides more direct tube contact/gripping support.
- Gas seal: burnishing and polishing action of the front ferrule creates concentrated zones of contact on the tube and on the body bevel for a stronger seal.
- Vibration resistance: the colleting region better isolates stress risers at the tube grip to resist bending, deflection, and vibration.
SAT12® Carburization Process
Swagelok’s unique low-temperature carburization process provides tool-steel-like hardness and strength in the rear ferrule without sacrificing corrosion resistance or material ductility.
Easy to Install
Quick assembly and reassembly using only standard wrenches make our fittings easy to install. Our expert training equips your workforce with essential skills for installing fittings across all your applications.
Rigorous Testing
Swagelok fittings are subjected to extreme burn, rotary flex, impulse, corrosion, and shock impact testing. Some tests take as many as 10 million cycles to complete.
Thousands of samples of production tube fittings are tested in our state-of-the-art labs to ensure only highly reliable components.
We offer the most comprehensive tube fitting Product Test Reports (PTRs) in the industry.
2. A Material Difference
In all stainless steels, chromium and nickel are critical for corrosion resistance and ductility. Because our 316 SS tube fittings contain more chromium and nickel than industry standards require, you can make the most of resources while achieving optimal performance by combining our 316 SS fittings with compatible alloy tubing in Engineered Combinations.
3. Low Cost of Ownership
The price of a fitting is only part of its actual cost. Swagelok two-ferrule, compression-grip fittings cost less to own over the life of the fitting. Better design and reliability mean less investment in replacement and more investment in your operation.
- Leak-tight design = less risk of costly accidents and media loss
- Optimal reliability = lower maintenance costs and minimal downtime
4. Services Tailored to You
Swagelok can support your success wherever it takes you. Our 7,800 associates worldwide work together to provide factory support, field engineering, technical services, coordinated deliveries, inventory replenishment, and a range of special expertise.
See how our evaluation and advisory services can help relieve your pressures
Training and Education
Keep up with the latest fluid system technologies and meet day-to-day challenges with the wide range of valuable and practical tools provided by Swagelok’s training and education programs.
Evaluation and Advisory Services
See how our technical expertise, application experience, and industry knowledge can improve performance, productivity, and safety, and reduce costs and environmental issues.
Custom Solutions
If you’re short on manpower, Swagelok can provide an extra set of hands by building your fluid system assemblies for you with professional, repeatable designs, including testing, inspection, and packaging.
Sales and Service Support
Our sales and service centers can help you make the right product choices for your systems and applications, while our eProcurement resources will make your transactions easy and efficient. Plus, our sales and service representatives understand your challenges and can develop inventory management and other value-added services to make up for you having fewer resources at your disposal.
Read for more fluid system tips
Common Causes and Costs of Fluid System Leaks
Discover more about what can cause leaks, and how to help prevent them.
4 Strategies to Maximize Industrial Fluid System Efficiencies
Learn more about how the right choices can help maintain system health and increase plant safety and efficiency.