Food Quality Silicone Sponge Sheet
Food Quality Silicone Sponge Sheet
Advanced Seals & Gaskets Ltd work with a wide network of material manufacturers, enabling us to offer a vast range of high-quality sheets of sponge and solid silicone materials, one of which is food quality silicone sponge rubber sheets. FDA approved silicone sponge is manufactured in continuous rolls up to 10 meters in length, which are manufactured and supplied with skin on both faces in thicknesses ranging from 1.5mm up to 12mm, but can be cut down into silicone sponge rubber sheets at one meter x one meter or one-meter x two meters in size.
As our onsite facilities house a range of state of the art conversion machinery including a range of presses, CNC machines, slitting machines and log cutters, we are able to supply food quality silicone sponge in full silicone sponge rubber sheets or cut into various parts including cut strip, pads, washers and gaskets for use in a multitude of applications, all of which can be supplied covered in one of our many foils or self-adhesive tapes.
What are Food Quality Silicone Sponge Rubber Sheets?
Food Quality Silicone sponge is a white coloured, closed-cell with a medium density, which is manufactured in continuous rolls or long lengths of material but can be cut down as supplied as silicone sponge rubber sheets.
Unlike some ‘food safe’ materials available, food quality silicone sponge rubber sheets is fully FDA compliant to FDA 21 CFR 177.2600 standards for repeated use in the food industry and is also WRAS approved (Water Regulations Advisory Scheme) for use where there is contact with drinking water.
Food quality silicone sponge rubber sheets are platinum cured and only contain safe ingredients in it’s compound, which are taste and odourless so that they do not cause contamination.
Product Enquiry
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Product Specification & Key Characteristics
- Colour: white
- Density: 420kg/m3
- Temperature Range: 230°C to -60°C
- Thickness Availability: 1.5mm - 12mm
- FDA Standards: FDA 21 CFR 177.2600
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Why use Food Quality Silicone Sponge Rubber Sheets?
Food quality silicone sponge rubber sheets is fully tested by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), meaning this material can be safely used in food, drink and pharmaceutical industries with products that are dry, wet or fatty.
Food Quality silicone sponge rubber sheets are a soft, compressible material, offering excellent thermal stability and sealing, vibration dampening and cushioning properties. FDA silicone sponge offers excellent chemical resistance - but is not suitable for use where certain solvents, oils or concentrated acids are present.
Food quality silicone sponge rubber sheets are often taken by customers to cover large surfaces such as conveyor belts, work surfaces or line holding containers, these silicone sponge rubber sheets can also be used for customers to cut parts out to size as and when they’re needed.
Advantages of using Food Quality Silicone Sponge Rubber Sheets
Silicone sponge is available in a range of types, each with its own set of unique properties for use in a range of industries and environments. Food quality silicone sponge sheets are easy to cut or convert and can be used to manufacture a number of sealing components in the form of gaskets, strips or washers to prevent the ingress of water, dust and dirt, therefore protecting both the machinery as well as the product itself.
Food quality silicone sponge rubber sheets offers a number of excellent properties including a low compression set, resistance to UV, Ozone and weathering, can be used for thermal insulation and has a wide working temperature range of 230°C to -60°C.
Food quality silicone sponge rubber sheets can be used in different forms such as liners, chutes, sleeves, gaskets, strips or pads in a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, food and beverage, all of which can be produced from sheets of material.
Key Benefits of Food Quality Silicone Sponge Rubber
- Fully FDA compliant - FDA 21 CFR 177.2600.
- White coloured for easy foreign body detection
- UV, Ozone and corona resistant
- Excellent sealing properties
- Wide working temperature range of 230°C to -60°C
- Can be easily converted into parts such as gaskets, washers, strips or pads
Different Grades of Silicone Sponge Available
- Flame Retardant Silicone Sponge
- High Recovery Silicone SPonge
- High-Temperature Silicone SPonge
- Fluorosilicone Sponge
- Thermally Conductive Silicone Sponge
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