Food Quality Silicone Sponge Strip
Food Quality Silicone Sponge Strip
Here at Advanced Seals & Gaskets Ltd, we work with a wide network of material manufacturers, enabling us to offer a vast range of high-quality strips (such as silicone sponge rubber strips) cut from the sponge and solid silicone materials, one of which is food quality silicone sponge. 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 from which food quality silicone sponge rubber strips can be cut.
By following customers' dimensions, drawings or samples, we can produce bespoke sized food quality silicone sponge rubber strips using a choice of bandsaws, strippers, log cutters and even presses depending upon the size and quantity required. In-house production allows us to closely oversee the whole production process ensuring we consistently produce high quality, competitively priced silicone sponge rubber strips.
Our food quality silicone sponge strips can be cut from 2 meters or 1-meter x 1-meter sheets or continuous rolls, in widths starting at around 4mm wide, all manufactured with a choice of self-adhesive tapes or foils in lengths of just a few millimetres long to continuous lengths in coil form.
What are Food Quality Silicone Sponge Rubber Strips?
Food quality silicone sponge rubber strips is a white coloured, closed-cell with a medium density, unlike some ‘food safe’ materials available. Food quality silicone sponge 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 strips are platinum cured and only contains safe ingredients in it's compound, which is taste and odourless so that they do not cause contamination. Food quality silicone sponge rubber strips are cut from sheets or rolls of material to order, meaning we can supply them to meet your exact specifications in terms of lead time, size and finish.
Product Enquiry
For information on Food Quality Silicone Sponge Strip please complete the following quick enquiry or call us on +44(0)1384 252555.
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 Strips?
Food quality silicone sponge 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 is a soft, compressible material, offering excellent thermal stability and sealing, vibration dampening and cushioning properties.
FDA silicone sponge rubber strips offers excellent chemical resistance - but is not suitable for use where certain solvents, oils or concentrated acids are present. Food quality silicone sponge rubber strips can be used for noise and vibration control applications or as a gasket or seal, placed between two surfaces to create a low-pressure seal preventing the leakage of dust, liquids or gas.
Advantages of using Food Quality Silicone Sponge Rubber Strips
Silicone sponge rubber strips are 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 is easy to convert and can be used in a number of sealing applications in the form of silicone sponge rubber strips to prevent the ingress of water, dust and dirt, and also as noise and vibration control, therefore protecting both the machinery as well as the product itself.
Food quality silicone sponge rubber strips offer 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 strips can be used in a variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, food and beverage.
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, silicone sponge rubber 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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