Company Profile

About us

Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. provides customers on a global scale, with innovative solutions utilizing our material science and canted-coil™ spring technology. With over 120 active US and foreign patents, we continue to strive towards creating new products, making good products better, and discovering new ways of propelling technology forward through the use of our cutting-edge engineering designs. Our customer-focused engineers work closely with you to rapidly apply new solutions and to develop new materials to meet your specific application needs.

 

Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. was founded on a theoretically simple innovation, with a very powerful application that was needed to meet a challenge. A plastic ring with a groove in it to house a coiled spring was the launching pad for a new industry.

In 1951, Pete Balsells, an aerospace design engineer, recognized the need for self energized seals for rocket booster cryogenics. With the combination of his formal education in engineering, problem solving skills, and inventor’s zeal, he worked to formulate a solution. He combined his recognition of the benefits of Polytetraflouroethylene’s (PTFE) mechanical properties for sealing purposes with his vision of a spring that would provide uniform force throughout its working deflection to create the canted-coil™ spring energized PTFE seal, today commonly known as the "Bal Seal".

Since 1958, when Bal Seal Engineering was founded, based on Pete’s original breakthrough of the PTFE Seal, the company has enjoyed over five decades of growth and continued innovation. It is our goal at Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. to lead the world in the development and supply of sealing and connecting solutions for critical applications.