INSULATION KITS

INSULATION KITS
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INSULATION KITS

Product catalog summary
Company Overview
Carrara S.p.a. is a modern supplier focused on value creation through skills, flexibility, innovation, and strong client relationships. It offers a range of products, including the GUARDIAN line of Insulation Kits for industrial flange protection, ensuring high-quality standards.
Product Range
The GUARDIAN product line includes:
  • Guardian Performer
  • Guardian Performer Fire
  • Guardian Premium
  • Guardian Basic
Guardian Performer
Designed for electrical insulation of flanges and fire-safe seals, compliant with Fire Test API 6FB Third Edition. Suitable for critical fluids and high pH environments, offering low emission levels. Available in different styles (ICP, ICA, ICB) with various material options for different temperature and pressure ratings.
Guardian Premium
The Premium line, specifically Style IS, uses GRE material for both retainer and insulation, suitable for RF, FF, and RTJ flanges. Offers sealing with PTFE, nitrile, or fluorinated rubber, designed to prevent retainer breakage under stress.
Guardian Basic
Includes styles IPT and ICSF, using materials like Planiflon® B13 and Planiflex® PF64 for sealing and electrical insulation. Designed for reliability in harsh conditions, with GRE materials preferred for their low hygroscopic factor.
Technical Specifications
Insulation Kits prevent electrostatic charges and galvanic corrosion. They include a gasket, sleeves, and washers, with materials chosen for electrical, mechanical, and age resistance. GRE materials are highlighted for their superior properties compared to phenolic resins.
Specifications and Testing
Key specifications include dielectric strength, tensile strength, compressive strength, flexural strength, shear strength, bond strength, water absorption, and IZod impact strength, ensuring reliability and effectiveness in various industrial applications.
Procedures
Recommended installation procedures include checking kit contents, cleaning flange surfaces, installing the gasket, inserting sleeves into bolt holes, and tightening nuts in a star sequence. Emphasizes checking the tension of tie rods exposed to aggressive thermal cycles.
Standards and Recommendations
The choice of Insulation Kit depends on operating conditions such as temperature, pressure level, and flange facing. GRE G11(FR) materials can withstand temperatures up to 200°C, and pressure ratings up to API 10000 psi can be covered with the correct product. Guardian Performer models are suitable for high ratings, while Guardian Premium IS is recommended for the 1500 lbs category.
Dimension Tables
Includes dimension tables for ANSI B16.5 flanges, detailing gasket, bolt, washer, and sleeve dimensions for various pressure ratings (#150, #300, #600, #900, #1500, #2500), providing specific measurements for different flange sizes and types.
Product Range
Carrara offers a wide range of sealing solutions, including packings for valves and pumps, valve sealants and components, metallic and flat gaskets for flanges, and mechanical seals. Highlights Carrara's expertise in providing high-quality sealing systems that ensure excellent sealing and emission control, suitable for high pressures and speeds.
Environmental Division
Carrara's FERP Environmental Division specializes in monitoring fugitive and diffused VOC emissions, steam leaks, and developing energy-saving programs for various industrial sectors. Offers high value-added services for refining, energy production, offshore, and petrochemical sectors.
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INSULATION KITS flange protection

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Carrara S.p.a. truly believes in the modern meaning of SUPPLIER, taking active part in the creation of real value, coming from skills and flexibility, innovation and vertical relationships with its Clients. Carrara’s product range now includes GUARDIAN, the new line of Insulation Kits dedicated to the protection of industrial flanges, guaranteeing the same high quality standards as those of its other products. The product range is made up of: • Guardian Performer • Guardian Performer Fire • Guardian Premium • Guardian Basic

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Global Sealing Solutions Style ICP Fire page 7 Style ICA page 8 Style ICB page 9 Style IS page 11 Style IPT page 12 Style ICSF page 13 Style IE page 13 Technical references regarding Insulation Kits page 14 Summary tables and other uses SETTING FLANGE The data shown in the technical data sheets have been obtained from tests carried out at Carrara S.p.a laboratories, from tests performed at third-party laboratories and from the experience of using the products in industrial applications.Correct product selection and installation are determining factors for product functionality.Carrara S.p.a....

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Company - Global Sealing Solutions Carrara Global Sealing Solutions, committed to Partnership 4 Operating Divisions • Sealing systems and valve components • Industrial Sealing Systems • Environmental Services • Technical threads for industry Carrara is Partner to the main producers of process components for fluid control and is certified by the main International EPCs and main Oil and Gas Players to provide sealing systems and Environmental Services. • 20.000 m2 of covered surface area • 160 employees • Patented products • Frame Agreements with International

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Mission • Satisfying our Customers by producing efficient Sealing Systems. • Providing our Customers with the best technical, logistic and price solution. • Committing to establishing long-term business Partnerships with Customers and working with them striving for continuous improvement. To achieve its mission, Carrara Global Sealing Solutions has provided itself with space for logistics, equipment, management software and human resources adapted to the needs of an increasingly competitive and demanding market. • The vast factory surface area ensures an extremely logical flow of raw materials,...

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Guardian Performer - Style ICP Guardian Performer - Style ICP

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Guardian Performer FIRE ICP has been designed to provide a solution at the same time suitable for the electrical insulation of flanges and the Fire Safe seals. Guardian Performer FIRE ICP is, in fact, compliant with the requirements of the Fire Test API 6FB Third Edition. Thanks to its special composition, the gasket guarantees high sealing standards on the flanges RF, FF and RTJ up to 200°C in ANSI 150 - 2500 # and API 2 - 10K# and PN 420# ratings. GUARDIAN PERFORMER Guardian Performer FIRE ICP is particularly suitable for use with critical fluids, with high pH or in the presence of H2S. thanks...

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Guardian Performer - Style ICA - ICB ■ GUARDIAN PERFORMER ICA AND ICB I Guardian Performer ICA and ICB have a metal support on which the GRE insulation layer is applied. Other than creating an excellent insulation barrier in the G10 (FR4) and G11 (FR5) models, the GRE materials also provide significant mechanical and chemical resistance, and can therefore be used in a wide range of applications. Guardian Performer ICA The main seal in energized PTFE can also be made of NBR or FKM rubber. It is specific for applications where Low Emission requirements are needed. The energized PTFE gaskets equipped...

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Standard Design Guardian Performer ICA and ICB Gasket Thickness Customized kits as per thickness and materials of the components are also available. GUARDIAN PERFORMER Sealing Element The data in the tables show the expected mean values. GLOBAL SEALING SOLUTIONS

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Guardian Premium - Style IS Guardian Premium Style IS

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I Guardian Premium IS does not have any metal support, while the GRE material functions both as retainer and as insulation. The gasket can be used on RF, FF and also RTJ flanges, in place of inefficient Phenolic Ring Joints. Sealing is ensured by PTFE as well as nitrile or fluorinated rubber. The housing groove of the gasket it is shaped to prevent breakage of the retainer in the case of overstress, as well as to give greater elasticity to the sealing element. Guardian Premium IS can be used up to 200°C depending on the selected GRE in ANSI 150 - 1500#, API 2 - 5K# and PN 250# ratings. Standard...

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_ Guardian Basic - IPT e ICSF Guardian Basic■ GUARDIAN BASIC IPT Guardian Basic IPT uses Planiflon® B13, modified and bi-directionally oriented PTFE for sealing and electrical insulation, which minimizes the effects of relaxation and viscous flow typical of these seals, guaranteeing excellent reliability even in the most harsh uses. Planiflon® B13 is suitable for use on RF and FF flanges guaranteeing extensive chemical compatibility, Covering the entire 0^14 range, with the exception of the few fluids for which the filler is not compatible. Guardian Basic IPT can be used up to 200°C in ANSI 150...

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■ GUARDIAN BASIC ICSF Guardian Basic ICSF uses Planiflex® PF64 for sealing and electrical insulation, which is made of aramid fibers and NBR rubberbased materials, selected especially to guarantee the highest levels of performance in a wide range of industrial applications. Guardian Basic ICSF The main seal is made with CSF Planiflex PF64, it is a durable and reliable gasket. GUARDIAN BASIC Planiflex® PF64 can be used continuously in temperatures ranging from -40°C÷250°C and in pressure ratings of up to 600 lbs and PN40. These gaskets have chemical compatibility in the pH range typical of that...

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The flange Kit includes a gasket, and, for each bolt, a sleeve, two insulating washers and two plated steel washers. The sets are packed individually, with labels indicating the size, type and combination of the materials. Specifications ■ Electrical insulation of piping The Insulation Kits are used both to insulate the piping from the flow of electrostatic charges, as well as to reduce the risks of galvanic corrosion as different types of metal used together without protection can lead to electro erosion. ■ Insulating materials A good insulation kit must be made of materials with particular...

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.