ZOOK^® appoint Elmac Technologies^® as distributors for the UK and Ireland

13th August 2010

ZOOK, the world leaders in the manufacture of metal and graphite rupture disks and related overpressure protection products, has appointed Elmac Technologies as their distributors for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

"I am delighted to announce this new partnership with such a world-renowned company," commented Elmac's managing director Dr Martyn Cooling. "ZOOK shares the same core philosophies in its business operations as Elmac: ensuring plant safety, product quality and customer service."

"ZOOK safety products are a natural extension to Elmac's existing portfolio", continued Dr Cooling. "Adding a complete range of metal and graphite forward- and reverse-acting rupture disks, and explosion vents and doors, to the Elmac flame arrester and tank fittings product ranges, allows customers to purchase more of their safety items from a single supplier, thus simplifying project co-ordination and purchasing requirements."

ZOOK operates the world's largest facility dedicated exclusively to the manufacturing of graphite rupture disks and are recognised as the world leader in their development and production. They also developed the revolutionary Universal Reverse Acting (URA) disk designed for low to high burst pressures suitable for liquid or gas service.

Unlike other rupture disk manufacturers, ZOOK strives to deliver new products that are backwards-compatible wherever possible to ensure that new discs do not require new holders (which can be expensive to change), and ZOOK discs can often be used in competitor's devices.

"We understand that for safety commodities such as bursting discs, it is important to the customer that replacement costs are kept as low as possible," said Dr Cooling, "and we feel that ZOOK's commitment to the customer is an excellent match for Elmac's own drive for excellence in customer service."

About ZOOK

The Rupture Disk Group consists of manufacturing plants and marketing centres located in three countries, on the North American and European continents and combined, ZOOK offers 90+ years of experience in the field of manufacturing rupture disks.

ZOOK operates the world's largest facility dedicated exclusively to the manufacturing of graphite rupture disks. ZOOK's graphite rupture disk origins stem from their founder's pioneering efforts into the development of graphite rupture disks for use as overpressure protection devices on graphite heat exchangers during the 1950's. ZOOK are recognized as the world's leader in the development and production of graphite rupture disks. The graphite facility is located in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, USA. This facility was awarded the first issuance of an ASME "UD" stamp for graphite disks. Additionally, ZOOK is certified in accordance with the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED 97/23/EC) and can provide marked Graphite Rupture Disks. ZOOK is also certified in accordance to TÜV standards.

In November 1998, ZOOK strengthened its position in the world's rupture disk markets through the acquisition of the graphite rupture disk business of Metaullics, Inc.

In September 1999, ZOOK purchased Process Equipment Limited located in Burlington, Ontario Canada, manufacturers of the PROQUIP trade name of metal rupture disks. PROQUIP began manufacturing metal rupture disks in 1952. PROQUIP is the 3rd oldest and experienced Metal disk manufacturer in number of years in operation.

In 2000, ZOOK purchased Rupture Discs International (RDI) a graphite rupture disk manufacturer located in Sheffield, England. RDI offers distribution capabilities convenient to the European markets.

Through the merger of Process Equipment Ltd., trade named PROQUIP and the acquisitions of Rupture Discs International trade named RDI and Metaullics Inc, product trade named Impervite; ZOOK is positioned in a class of its own, manufacturing the most comprehensive line of metal and graphite rupture disks and related overpressure protection products in the world. ZOOK is capable of manufacturing, in its own facilities, 100% of the rupture disk requirements of a process plant. ZOOK manufactures a full line of rupture disk products including conventional forward acting, scored forward acting, conventional reverse acting, scored reverse acting and the revolutionary new Universal Reverse Acting (URA) disk designed for low to high burst pressures suitable for liquid or gas service. This disk design offers true plant-wide standardization previously unavailable with competitive offerings. In addition, we manufacture a complete line of explosion vents and doors to service the material handling industries.

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