Metal Detectable Materials
Metal detectable materials provide confidence and make it easier for manufacturers in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other contamination sensitive industries to demonstrate due diligence, while at the same time optimising productivity.
Metal detectable products have been specially formulated to be quickly and easily found with standard metal detection equipment if any small pieces fall into the product. In addition to this, to make them visually detectable, our components are blue as standard.
Metal detectable equipment parts
Exposure to extreme temperatures, continuous vibration, and corrosive clean-in-place (CIP) chemicals over time, can cause O-rings in industrial processing operations to degrade and fail.
If pieces of rubber from seals and gaskets break off a moving part, they can migrate through the sanitary system and into the product stream. Failure to locate the missing parts can have a costly outcome, especially if a recall is required.
An easy, cost-effective solution is the use of metal detectable seals. By manufacturing a standard seal with a metal impregnated compound, displaced rubber material can now be found by a standard in-line metal detector. This enables your system to instantly reject contaminated product, preventing costly product recalls.All the materials we offer have been independently tested by a leading metal detection machinery manufacturer with sample seal fragments as small as 2mm being identified on a process line running at a speed of 25 meters per minute. This ensures product safety and compliance with FDA regulations.
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