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Revised Inpro/Seal Web Site is Valuable Tool and Unique Reference with Lots of Valuable Information That Includes Response Directly to The Inventor of

Rock Island, IL (PRWEB) November 14, 2007 -- Inpro/Seal, the Rock Island, IL, based manufacturer of bearing isolators, has significantly revised their long standing website - www.inpro-seal.com.

The Original Site

In 1997, when www.inpro-seal.com was first operational, the Internet was in its infancy with less than 1,000,000 active websites. To illustrate how popular the internet has become, three years ago, there were 64,808,485 sites. Today, the total number of websites is estimated at 135,000,000. Over the years, www.inpro-seal.com grew in popularity and it remains the only website operated by a company whose only product is bearing isolators.

Result Of Research

According to David C. Orlowski, inventor of the bearing isolator and CEO of Inpro/Seal Company, "As the internet grew, so did we. We spent two years conducting extensive research into the use of bearing isolators. Completed in 2005, the results of this market-by-market, application-by-application analysis showed that people wanted to know more about bearing isolators. Whether they used bearing isolators or not, whether or not they read our literature or advertising messages, the majority of the respondents stated that they wanted to know more about the unique characteristics of the product".

Need For Speed, The First Upgrade

In early 2007, the company went on to adopt an "educate and inform" marketing approach and applied it to their existing website. The first step they took was to hire Jason Putnam, an experienced web designer, who now heads these (and related) operations. Now, all web related activities are an in-house operation.

Putnam states, "A few years ago, when information was needed, the end user would read a trade magazine and circle a bingo card number and wait weeks for literature to be received. Today, everything is more time sensitive, so prospective buyers turn to the Internet where they have instant access to information".

Putnam continued, "In January, 2007 the site was revised from the ground up. Visitors right away noticed a new, more readable design, fresh graphics, improved navigation menus and easy access. Because our website is designed and maintained in-house, I wanted to give it some time to review our results and further determine what our visitors wanted. In other words, this website will always be a work in progress as we plan to constantly monitor it to make changes and additions as needed".

The Current Upgrade

When addressing the second upgrade, Orlowski stated, "I know that an educated consumer is our best customer. Our objective to have the user of our products fully aware of the benefits obtained through the implementation of our technology required some changes to inpro-seal.com.

Orlowski continued, "In September 2007 we reworked our website to include a section (DCO's Corner) that addresses issues and applications in a timely manner. I personally author this section and plan to cover different subjects every month. We have even included a button for visitors to respond, to which I personally reply. We also added sections on rotating equipment and news on the latest updates and product developments. Because this is not a static website and is a work in progress, we expect that readers will visit here every month to see what else we have to offer to help them do their job better".

Valuable Tool And Unique Reference

The revised site incorporates illustrations, charts, diagrams, installations, product photography, documentation, product literature, feature articles, FAQ's, guarantees and much more into a product rich website designed to educate, inform and simplify the selection process.

The site includes important and useful information on the evolution of the bearing isolator, including: how and why it was invented; how it works; how and why contact seals fail in a short period of time; how to eliminate catastrophic failure and how to reduce power consumption in rotating equipment; their green approach to energy conservation without spending a lot of money; costs; FAQ; maintenance; designs, applications, configurations and more.

It should prove to be of value to anyone involved in the management, maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) of motors, machine tool spindles, turbines, fans, gear boxes, paper machine rolls, pumps, mixers, conveyors, classifier, shafts, VFDs and other types of related equipment used in industrial/process plants.

The Product

The bearing isolator is a non-contact, non-wearing, permanent bearing protection device. It has a rotor and a stator, and the two are unitized so that they don't separate from one another while in use. Typically, the rotor turns with the rotating shaft, while the stator is pressed into a bearing housing. The two components interact to keep contamination out of the bearing enclosure and the lubricant in. While a lip seal or contact seal operates with contact, the bearing isolator makes no contact, never wears out and can be used over and over for many years. Contact seals, on the other hand, have a 100% failure rate.

Our Schedule Is Your Schedule

Orlowski went on to say that, "Unscheduled downtime is expensive. In the process industries, downtime can run as high as $87,000 per hour. When it comes to vital parts or downtime, there are very few plants that can wait until next week. For this reason, we have maintained a same day shipping option from day one, backed by a data bank of over 58,000 engineered designs".

Orlowski concluded, "Sure, there are other pretenders to the bearing isolator business and there are other kinds of bearing protection. The problem is that these pretenders offer life cycles measurable in months and may not even ship their products the same month, let alone the same day. Other bearing protection devices have a finite life and 100% failure rate, it simply does not make sense to lose time and money trying to make an inferior bearing seal work".

About Inpro/Seal

Inpro/Seal Company is the originator and the world's number one manufacturer of bearing isolators, used to protect motor and pump bearings, machine tool spindles, turbines, fans, gear boxes, paper machine rolls and many other types of rotating equipment. Additional applications include the sealing, handling, processing, packing and storage of dry particulates, powders and bulk solids.

At one time the company kept a running total of all bearing isolators sold, but stopped keeping track when their production hit 40,000 per month. The company still reports that of all the bearing isolators delivered over the last 30 years, most all continue to be in operation in process plants worldwide, where end users continue to report significantly reduced operating costs with increased productivity and reliability. Protected bearings have proven to run 150,000 hours (17 years) or more. Documented cases show that a plant can easily double the mean-time-between failure (MTBF) and reduce maintenance costs by at least half.

Signoff

For more information on bearing protection and/or Inpro/Seal Bearing Isolators visit: www.inpro-seal.com. Contact information: Jason Putnam at: Inpro/Seal Company, P.O. Box 3940, Rock Island, Illinois 61204. Phone numbers are: (800) 447-0524 or (309) 787-4971. Fax number is: (309) 787-6114.

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