Food and Beverage Seals Services FDA Approved

Food-safe sealants and seals are typically made from materials suitable for food-contact environments, such as silicone, EPDM, FKM, NBR, PTFE, or other approved elastomer compounds selected for the application. The right choice depends on temperature, cleaning chemicals, oils, pressure, and contact media. DSC helps match food and beverage applications with appropriate molded seals, gaskets, diaphragms, and custom materials.

Food-grade O-rings are manufactured from compounds appropriate for food and beverage equipment, often including silicone, EPDM, FKM, NBR, or PTFE depending on the operating conditions. Important factors include resistance to washdown chemicals, fats, oils, heat, compression set, and repeated cycling. Detroit Sealing Components offers standard and custom O-rings across international sizes for food industry applications.

Yes. DSC supports custom sealing needs by taking customer design parameters and developing solutions with CAD, finite element analysis, compound selection, and bench testing under customer conditions. If an existing material does not meet the requirement, DSC can help develop and test a compound through its ISO 17025 accredited lab to support cost-effective product viability.

Common food and beverage sealing materials include silicone, EPDM, NBR, FKM, PTFE, and liquid silicone rubber, with selection based on the equipment environment. Silicone can support clean, flexible applications; EPDM is often used around water and steam; FKM offers chemical and temperature resistance; and PTFE provides low friction and broad compatibility in demanding sealing conditions.

Yes. DSC offers gaskets and packings manufactured through compression, transfer, and injection molding processes. The company has more than 8000 tooled articles, including many standard parts, and can also design, develop, and tool custom geometries. Material selection can be tailored to static sealing requirements or, where appropriate, dynamic and rotary sealing applications.

Start by defining the sealing environment: temperature range, pressure, food or beverage contact media, cleaning chemicals, motion type, groove dimensions, and expected service life. From there, DSC can help identify suitable materials and geometries, including O-rings, gaskets, diaphragms, washers, or bonded components, while considering durability, leakage prevention, manufacturability, and cost-efficiency.

Custom designs can be bench-tested under customer conditions to help confirm product viability before broader production. DSC also supports material development and testing through its fully equipped ISO 17025 accredited lab. This is especially valuable when food and beverage applications require a specific compound, performance target, dimensional tolerance, or resistance to cleaning and operating environments.

Detroit Sealing Components supports nationwide distribution as a stocking warehouse and distributor of molded rubber goods. Its strategic location near high-traffic shipping lanes helps provide swift and cost-effective delivery. Customers can source standard products, related kits, and custom sealing components for food and beverage equipment through DSC’s efficient distribution and technical support model.