PRECISION SEALING SYSTEMS

Hutchinson designs and manufactures systems and products for ensuring static or dynamic tightness throughout a range of applications that is virtually unlimited.

High-precision interfaces

A solution to each problem

Whether it be for watches, automotive mechanisms, aerosols for daily use, airplanes or a liquefied petroleum gas supertanker, Hutchinson is able to offer the best solution.
Among the hundreds of approved formulated mixtures, there is always one that is perfectly adapted to a sealing problem that needs to be dealt with. And should this not be the case, its laboratories would invent it.
For every application, Hutchinson manages to reconcile optimization of the functional characteristics expected with the implementation of a process ensuring the most efficient productivity.

A guarantee of quality

Quality is the first and foremost preoccupation of the company. Since it markets exclusively its own products, Hutchinson is one of the only global players that can pride itself with a guarantee of origin that vouches for a perfect control of quality.

Proximity on a worldwide scale

With 19 industrial sites established in Europe, North America, South America and Asia, clients enjoy the best of both worlds: global resources and local service.

Five divisions to serve our clients

A leader in precision sealing for several decades now, Hutchinson is organized into five global divisions offering products and services that are considered the standard performance benchmarks by professionals. They are marketed under well established names:

• O-Rings Division

- O-Rings ………………………… LJF^®
- Bonded Seals ………………… PAMARGAN


• Oil Seals Division
- Rotary shaft seals........................................................................PAULSTRA^®
- Automatic transmission pistons...............................................PAULSTRA^®
- Bearing seals................................................................................PAULSTRA^®
- Magnetic encoders.......................................................................PAULSTRA ^®                                                           

• Precision Rubber Division

- Precision molded parts ..............................................................LJF^®
- Extruded and cut parts.................................................................LCM
- Lathe cut parts...............................................................................CATELSA


• Automotive Molded Parts Division

- Automotive molded parts in rubber and/or in
TPE (thermoplastic elastomer)…………….. CATELSA

• Lathe Foam and converting Division

- Composite Sheets (TRIPLEX)
- Compact or cellular lathe cut rubber ..........................................HUTCHINSON  Industrielle Desmarquoy Intecsa
- Cellular sheaths
- Cellular blocks
- Thermoform parts

Each operations setup cultivates excellence

Always at the cutting-edge of innovation, Hutchinson circulates in each of its operations setups the same know-how, the same technological lead, the same demand for zero defects and, of course, the same environmental stringency.

As regards precision sealing, Hutchinson is present in the automotive, construction, industrial machines, packaging, hygiene, energy (petroleum and gas) markets.