The Industry’s Most Flexible Steel Shaft Couplings Featuring the Exclusive...
Coupling Corporation of America is a leading and innovative manufacturer of shaft couplings, flexible shaft couplings and keyless hubs for large rotating machinery and other shaft coupling...
View ArticleQuill Shaft Soft Couplings
For applications where quill shaft soft couplings are required, Coupling Corporation designs quill shaft couplings with flexible diaphragms so that the pulsations from motors or engine drivers can be...
View ArticleIntroducing Our New Blog “Misaligned and Running Fine”
Coupling Corporation of America (CCA) is pleased to announce the addition of a new, informative blog section to our website called, ” Misaligned and Running Fine.” Starting this month, we will release...
View ArticleHow CCA Saved a Customer Millions
A CouplingCorp customer came with a problem that can be common. The original shaft attachment device they were using had a set screw to hold it in place on the shaft. Over time the vibrations of the...
View ArticlePelletizer Coupling Success
A plastics manufacturer came to CouplingCorp about 10 years ago with an interesting problem. On their plastic pelletizer machines, the cutting knives were powered by a 120 HP motor. The machine used...
View ArticleDoes This Look Familiar? It Doesn’t Have To.
After many years of struggling with maintenance and vibration issues, a pipeline company decided to upgrade their couplings. The pipeline was powered by 4500 HP motor-driven pumps running at 1800 RPM....
View ArticleNo More Bearing Failures After Coupling Change
A power plant had six identical feed pumps powered by 3500 HP motors. The equipment was initially specified and connected with gear couplings. The plant personnel had grown accustomed to performing the...
View ArticleCan Your Chiller Coupling Stand Up To The Heat?
It can with York* Replacement Couplings from CCA Every year as the temperature rises and chiller systems are beginning to run, CouplingCorp gets calls from customers whose York* compressors have an...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution: Coupling Weight Loss
A large industrial manufacturer came to Coupling Corp with a low torque application designed to run at 75,000 RPM. This was no problem for the FLEXXOR coupling. But to make things harder, they wanted...
View ArticleVertical Pump Runout Solution
A refinery customer had a series of Ingersol-Rand VOC vertical pumps with clamshell couplings (as seen in the original IR manual below). Clamshell couplings are common in vertical pumps because they...
View ArticleWind Turbine Couplings: Downtime – Way Up in the Sky
When wind turbine couplings fail, it’s a long way up to get a replacement coupling installed. When wind turbine couplings fail and the coupling OEM is on a different continent, it can mean many months...
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Downtime – Way Up in the Sky
Broken Disc from Wind Turbine coupling When a wind turbine has a coupling failure, it’s a long way up to get a replacement coupling installed. When a wind turbine has a coupling failure and the...
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New Year’s Resolution: Coupling Weight Loss
A large industrial manufacturer came to Coupling Corp with a low torque application designed to run at 75,000 RPM. This was no problem for the FLEXXOR coupling. But to make things harder, they wanted...
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FLEXXOR Coupling Reduces Vibrations in Gas Compression Application
For several years a gas gathering company dealt with high vibrations on the motor driving a 6 throw, 5400 HP reciprocating compressor. Over that time, they made several attempts to reduce the levels,...
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How CCA Saved a Customer Millions
A CouplingCorp customer came with a problem that can be common. The original shaft attachment device they were using had a set screw to hold it in place on the shaft. Over time the vibrations of the...
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Surprise BSE Change
Thermal Growth – No Problem Recently a power plant was installing a new coupling after an extended outage. A new pump shaft and element were installed during the outage, and significant work was...
View ArticleCirc Water Success
Large Vertical Pumps with Large Problems Recently, a power plant had problems with its circulating water pump system. The system was rated at just over 5000 HP, running at 350 RPM. There were some...
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I Like Big Hubs (and I cannot lie)
Working with Large Hubs the Hard Way As the world’s heavy industries strive towards larger and more powerful equipment, CouplingCorp is helping to make it easier to keep that machinery running using...
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Vibration Transmission in Couplings
Reduce Coupling Vibration Transmission with FLEXXOR Couplings For years, the equipment owners have lived with excessive vibration generated from gear couplings. This post helps describe why coupling...
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