Expansion joints are flexible connectors which compensate for vibrations between rigid and movable components in industrial production plants. To prevent contamination of the product, e.g. foods, it is absolutely essential that these expansion joints, beginning with their manufacturing, adhere to the strict guidelines with regard to their structural shape and materials. While in use at a dairy plant, the installed expansion joints showed high signs of wear. Furthermore, the operating conditions required a
time consuming daily change of the expansion joints. By means of custom-made PLUG & RUN expansion joints with a more wear-resistant material, EagleBurgmann was able to provide a solution which ideally fulfills the requirements with regard to wear while at the same time significantly reducing the changeover time.

The change of expansion joints with conventional fasteners causes
high downtimes. Especially in applications in which the expansion
joint is permanently switched from one connection to another the
conversion to an expansion joint with quick lock system pays for itself
within a short period of time