Lokring
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Lokring Technology is a privately held international company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

, and serves over 30 countries worldwide. The Chairman and President of Lokring is William Lennon, whom is the grandson of the late Fred A. Lennon
Fred A. Lennon
Fred A. Lennon was an American manufacturer and philanthropist. He was the founder and chairman of Swagelok Company.Known for avoiding attention, Forbes magazine once described him as "the shiest billionaire"....

, the founder of Crawford Fitting Company, now known as The Swagelok Company
Swagelok
Swagelok is a privately held international company, focusing on the manufacture and sale of gas and fluid systems components, such as tube fittings, valves, tubing, and gauges. It was founded in 1947 by Fred A. Lennon in Solon, Ohio, where its headquarters remain...

. Lokring designs patented, weld equivalent pipe and tube fittings such as couplings, flanges, elbows, adapters, and more. The unique technology of the patented Lokring fittings utilize Elastic Strain Preload
(ESP®), and possesses a metal to metal leak-free seal that compresses or swages the pipe/tube wall.

The company is prominent in the Shipbuilding
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, Submarines (Marine), Oil & Gas
Oil field
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 (Upstream and Downstream) and Nuclear
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 Generation Industries, but also caters to other markets such as Steel, Pharmaceutical
Merck & Co.
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, Medical Gas
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, Railroad
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, and many more.
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