Press Release - GFD - Gesellschaft für Dichtungstechnik mbH

Sealing Rings · Sealing Elements · Sealing Systems
Press Release:
Hannover Industrial Fair
2008
Hall 4 · Stand E12
GFD – Gesellschaft für
Dichtungstechnik mbH
Hofwiesenstraße 7
D-74336 Brackenheim
Tel. (0 71 35) 95 11-0
Fax (0 71 35) 95 11-11
Contact: Ms. Er
E-Mail: e.er@gfd-dichtungen.de
http: //www.gfd-dichtungen.de
(Texts and images are also on the CD-ROM supplied)
Hannover Fair Press Release 2008 · GFD - Gesellschaft für Dichtungstechnik mbH

Sealing Rings · Sealing Elements · Sealing Systems
Press Release
Once again, this year's Industrial Fair will be taking place in Hannover, on
April 21-25.
It is one of the world's leading fairs for international engineering, in
particular mechanical engineering, to be positioned outside the field of the
specialist fairs.
It is interesting to consider why businesses choose to exhibit their products
at events like the Hannover Fair, in a climate in which cost minimisation is
such an important factor. After all, it is common knowledge that trade fair
activities are rather cost intensive
The year 2008 will mark the 21st time that GFD is participating in the
Hannover Industrial Fair.
The stated aims of participating companies vary greatly.
For instance, our main reason for taking part in international fairs is to
improve our chances of gaining access to new markets, and in particular:
• Increasing our share of exports
• Attracting new customers
• Maintaining existing customer relations
• Presenting new products
The trade fair functions as a platform upon which we can present ourselves
to an international public.
The exhibition stand is the centre of targeted presentational activities.
It is of uniform design, ready configured, economical, and functional.
We conduct dialogues with existing and potential customers and establish
contacts to customers and suppliers in the industrial, production, retail and
service sectors.
It also enables us to determine whether products, competence, and
communication are as they should be.
Hannover Fair Press Release 2008 · GFD - Gesellschaft für Dichtungstechnik mbH

Sealing Rings · Sealing Elements · Sealing Systems
This is also where we demonstrate ways and means to potential customers
of entering saturated markets. It is where existing customer contacts are
maintained and, if necessary, reactivated.
Directly, effectively, and economically.
This year, the emphasis of the products on display is on:
• Sealing rings with universal resistance to chemicals
• Metal and PTFE sealing rings designed for use in extreme
operating conditions, and which can cope with the highest
demands
• Applications, areas of deployment, and solutions to
problems
• Product innovations and developments
Even in difficult times, GFD continues to grow. Its excellent product range
secures its onward growth. Twenty people are employed in developing seal
constructions of diameters between two millimetres and three metres.
Our customers operate in such fields as the machine tool, faucet, medical
engineering, and aerospace industries, and also include manufacturers of
pumps, compressors, laser systems, gas turbines, autoclaves, and
containers.
Since the 1960s, the founders of the company have concentrated on
producing special sealing rings and sealing elements for use under
extreme conditions. The inspiration for this came from the negative
experiences made by users of so-called cheap, standard sealing rings,
under difficult operating conditions
The consequences of this were usually the same: the seal swells, becomes
deformed, corroded, overheated, and fatigued, until finally it loses its
sealing effect.
Wear, leakage, loss of medium, and standstill cause costs, which today's
economically operating companies can ill afford. GFD's high performance
sealing elements are specially designed for use in even the most extreme
conditions. Small business flexibility combined with the experience of
innovative specialists is the key to a constantly growing customer base,
both at home and abroad.
Hannover Fair Press Release 2008 · GFD - Gesellschaft für Dichtungstechnik mbH

Sealing Rings · Sealing Elements · Sealing Systems
Ill. 1 Ill. 2
GFD sealing rings
Spring-elastic PTFE sealing rings
Ill. 3 Ill. 4
Metal sealing rings
CEO: Hermann Löbich
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Sealing Rings · Sealing Elements · Sealing Systems
Ill. 5
GFD annual turnover since 1997
GFD Annual Turnover
Ill. 6
GFD turnover from exports since 1997
GFD Turnover from Exports
Hannover Fair Press Release 2008 · GFD - Gesellschaft für Dichtungstechnik mbH