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Gasket Tape Wins the Acid Test

Posted November 24, 2006 8:00 AM
Pathfinder Tags: acid tanks adhesives tapes

How do you seal a glass-lined, steel hydrochloric acid tank? The answer "any way you can" may first come to mind, but engineers came up with a GORE-TEX ® gasket tape to do the job. Read how the gasket tape saved the day.

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