Heco International

The preferred and most reliable supplier of high quality piston rod stuffing boxes and spare parts to engine builders and designers world wide. Operating worldwide is nothing new for HECO. Since the beginning of HECO, we have been delivering piston rod stuffing boxes for new engines and spare parts for engines across the globe. We demonstrated our... commitment to our global engagement with an introduction of the company name HECO International A/S in 1988. In HECO International A/S, we combine the best of two worlds to keep delivering products of the highest quality at competitive prices: all scraper and sealing rings and lamella scraper rings, for piston rod stuffing boxes, are produced in Denmark on advanced computer and robot-operated systems, while housing and flanges are produced at our modern Chinese factory in Suzhou, close to the worlds largest engine builders. *Worldwide sales of HECO spare parts to end-users and engine manufacturers are handled by the engine designers. Henning Cornelius the founder of the company worked with diesel engines his whole life. In 1934 he finished his apprenticeship as a fitter at B&W in Copenhagen. Later, he graduated as a marine engineer and spent eight years sailing the seven seas. 1959 was a memorable year for both Henning Cornelius and HECO. Henning Cornelius founded the company, and later that year, presented a new invention: the effective machine for renovating of the scraper rings for the piston rod stuffing boxes of the time. Back then, they featured scraper rings with a fixed scraping edge. Over the next three years, Henning Cornelius broke new ground. He invented a new type of oil scraper ring with replaceable scraping lamellas. It became the solution of the future for piston rod stuffing boxes for two-stroke diesel engines. When the scraping lamella is worn down, it can simply be replaced with a new one, while the expensive base ring can be reused. HECO piston rod stuffing boxes with scraper and sealing rings have been developed and improved several times in ...Read More