Lidering is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the market. Over half a century, the company has consolidated its position as experts in mechanical seals and solutions for the pumping and fluid transfer industry.
Founded in Barcelona in 1975, Lidering’s intrinsic DNA is characterised by passion, flexibility, and experience. The company’s trajectory has been built upon a demanding, passionate, responsible, and dynamic team, whose sole objective is to find the most efficient formula for each client to resolve their sealing needs.
A Legacy of Know-How and Solutions
The Know-How Lidering has generated over 5 decades provides the capacity, experience, and resources needed to offer the appropriate solution for various sealing systems in pumping and agitation equipment, even in the most complex cases or those requiring a specific solution.
Their Mission is to design and manufacture more reliable, sustainable, and quality sealing solutions for the process industry. Their ultimate purpose is to “Help the Industry build a sustainable future”.
Lidering offers a wide variety of high-quality products, including in-house manufactured seals and special seals. Their product portfolio includes:
- Cartridge Mechanical Seals: Simple cartridges, double cartridges, and seals for agitators and reactors.
- Component Seals: Multi-spring, thrust ring, single spring, bellows, and OEM seals.
- Other Products: Dry Seals, auxiliary products, and associated products.
In addition to products, Lidering offers a wide range of services driven by their background and expertise, aimed at improving and prolonging the life of mechanical seals, thereby helping to avoid unnecessary shutdowns. These services include:
- Custom manufacturing of mechanical seals, allowing the creation of personalised solutions rather than standard seals.
- Repair and improvement of mechanical seals.
- Design of solutions using advanced 3D software, always backed by quality certificates.
- Consulting and assistance for highly complex seals, with the expert technical team travelling to the client’s facilities.
- Specialised and customised training courses on mechanical seals and sealing solutions for various industrial sectors.
Lidering’s production centre is located in Reus, and its central offices are in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona).
Global Presence and Competitive Advantages
Lidering has a presence on five continents, thanks to its extensive network of clients, distributors, and own subsidiaries. The corporate value “Everywhere” represents their commitment to connectivity and global accessibility, working to ensure their clients are operational anywhere on the planet.
Lidering’s competitive advantages are Accessibility, Adaptability, Availability, and Reliability. Reliability is supported by continuous investment in innovation, engineering, and design programmes, production control, certifications, and product/material diversification. The company holds ISO 9001 quality certification (since 2000/2011) and ATEX certifications (SAqr-ATEX in 2020 and ATEX T4 in 2023).
The company serves strategic sectors such as chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, energy generation, biofuels, and water treatment and purification.
Own International Subsidiaries
Lidering maintains its own subsidiaries in:
- Spain (Cornellà de Llobregat and Reus).
- France (Lidering S.A.R.L., founded 1998).
- Germany (LIDERING GmbH, founded 2011).
- Belgium (SA LIDERING NV, founded 2000).
- Panama (LIDERING MECHANICAL SEALS SA, founded 2015).
Their distribution network also includes countries such as Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Denmark, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Tunisia, Egypt, Vietnam, and Jordan.
After fifty years of history, Lidering continues to align its business projects with social, environmental, and economic sustainability, reinforcing its commitment to “Help the Industry build a sustainable future”.
More informaton is available on the company website.