The food and drinks industry

Plastic materials for food-industry and food-display applications

Purity is the number-one requirement in the food and drinks industry. Our materials are suitable for use in applications in which they come into contact with food, and they have been approved for food-industry use by the EU and FDA.

We supply tailored chopping boards in food group-specific colours in line with European standards. We also manufacture high-quality components for machines used by the food industry.



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Applications

1. Maintenance of the food industry
Dairy products, brewing industry and bakeries
a. Conveyors - suitable for consumer plastics
b. Machined components for equipment - cosumables, dimensionally accurate machining
2. Storage and handling of food
a. Cold and heat storage
b. Cutting boards
- Euro standard color-coded cutting boards
- possibility to tailor to dimensions
3. HoReCa: presentation of food and drink
a. Protective covers for GN dishes and bread boxes
b. Trays, bowls and other serving dishes
- possibility of recycled material
c. Other products for display according to the customer's needs

Benefits of plastics

  • good resistance to wear
  • lightness
  • suitability for machining
  • suitability for use in the food industry
  • good resistance to detergents and disinfectants
  • traceability throughout the delivery chain, from raw material to finished product

Certificates

Plastic materials for the food industry are divided into two categories.

1. In direct contact with food
a. PE 500 and PE 1000
b. POM-C (black and white) and POM-H (white)
c. PA 6 and PA 6.6
d. PET
e. PEEK (natural and black)
f. PC
2. No direct contact with food
a. ABS
b. PVDF
c. PTFE
d. PPSU, PSU, PES
e. PPS
f. PI

We supply a wide range of FDA-approved materials for direct contact with food.

  • (EC) No 1935/2004
  • (EU) No 10/2011
  • (EC) No 2023/2006

More up-to-date information on food-grade plastics is available on the Finnish Plastics Industries Federation’s website.

NOTE! Any necessary certificates for materials or components should be requested at the time of ordering.

Screw conveyors and feed screws

Various screw conveyors and feed screws are used in food production to press and transfer semi-solid materials. They are also used to turn, position, separate and group jars and bottles.

Screw conveyors and feed screws are usually made from either PE 1000 or POM.

PTFE-coated fibreglass fabrics and open-mesh materials

Production lines for ready-made meals contain many components for which plastic is an ideal raw material. For example, the conveyor belts of pre-baking ovens are made from PTFE-coated fibreglass fabrics, which we supply as cut-to-size sheets.

Our product range also includes technical brushes produced by the German supplier Mink Bürsten. These too can be made to order.

Plastics detectable by metal detectors

Thanks to their affordability, resistance to wear, food-grade purity and resistance to detergents, plastics have been used in components of food-production equipment for many decades now.
However, no one is happy to find a fragment of plastic in a food product.

To prevent this from happening, manufacturers of food-grade plastic have developed plastics that can be found by a metal detector. Thanks to these innovations, any pieces of plastic can be spotted in the food products before packaging. These plastics are blue, because this colour does not occur naturally in food.
They use standard food-grade materials such as PE and POM. These materials can be rendered detectable by metal detectors through the addition of metal particles. The metal is added in such a low quantity that it is not visible to the naked eye and is not detectable by touch. Therefore, the materials retain all the beneficial properties possessed by the unmodified plastics.

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