Profile: James Walker Townson Ltd specializes in offering expansion joints and bellows. We provide compression packings, engineering plastics, flooring & decking products, hydraulic sealing products, mechanical seals, static seals, rotary seals and tension control fasteners. Duramid® compression packing is tough, high performance packing, cross-plaited from texturised aramid yarns. Each yarn is uniformly impregnated with PTFE dispersion and a silicone-based lubricant that resists chemical attack at high temperatures. It is used in valves & pumps handling abrasive and aggressive media in pulp and paper mills, petrochemical plants, power stations, metallurgical plants, sewage works and china clay works. Also suitable for potable water, medium pressure steam, and hardening fluids such as tar and bitumen.