The Swagelok Advantage
The unfailing reliability of the Swagelok® tube fitting is the result of our proven design, manufacturing excellence, and superior raw materials.
These advantages, along with the care of our associates, quality culture, and unrivaled experience, all work together to ensure that every Swagelok fitting meets our customers' highest expectations for safety and dependability.
Engineered Combinations
Swagelok can engineer a cost-effective and corrosion-resistant solution for installations exposed to seawater. Elevated chromium and nickel levels in our standard tube fitting metallurgy mean that we can offer engineered combinations as a rated alternative to full exotic alloy solutions in certain applications.
Rather than the traditional alloy-to-alloy tubing and fitting combinations, Swagelok's innovative thinking combines 316 stainless steel fittings with 6 Moly, 904L, Tungum®, and Alloy 825 Tubing.
Intermix and Interchange
No manufacturer can reliably and uniformly replicate the products of another making it poor practice to intermix / interchange tube fittings from various manufacturers. There is no industrywide commercial design standard for tube fittings. We ask you to consider these factors when contemplating this critical decision:
- Each manufacturer follows it's own standards and processes
- An intermixed / interchanged fitting is essentially a new, untested design
- Some manufacturers may “guarantee” an intermixed / interchanged tube fitting, but they will claim no effective responsibility—it will be all but impossible to provide any meaningful remedy when poor performance occurs
- The Swagelok Limited Lifetime Warranty is void
Further, independent third party review on this subject can be found in the Journal of Engineering Design, Vol. 10, No. 4, authored by Musa Mihseiin & Mike D. Seymour.