Food, Pharmaceutical and FDA Compliant Coatings

FOOD:

The food industry faces a myriad of problems, ranging from sticking, to corrosion, to food borne pathogens. In the food packaging industry, slip and traction are concerns as well. As with any industry efficiency and safety are also a major concern.

Plasma Coatings offers a variety of FDA compliant coatings for direct and indirect contact with food. Many of these coatings are also USDA compliant and are excellent choices for example, poultry processing plants.

These coatings can offer a multitude of features, including traction, slip, release, chemical resistance, solvent resistance, and wear resistance.

Typical Applications Include:

Our coatings result in not only a safer work environment, but reduced down time, and process savings as well. Benefits can be realized such as:

• Reduced down time due to the reduction or elimination of cleaning and sticking issues
• Budgetary savings from refacing vs. replacing equipment
• Reduction in the need of cleaning compounds
• Improvement in material handling

PHARMACEUTICAL:

In the pharmaceutical industry, there is a need for coatings in the following areas:

These coatings can be repeatedly autoclaved and cleaned with 30psi steam without affecting physical properties. In addition, some of our coatings are pure synthetic polymers, resulting in a coating that is fungus-resistant.

Other coatings that contain polymer additives such as plasticizers, cellulosics, lubricants, stabilizers, and colorants permit the growth of fungi. Our specialty coatings contain no plasticizers or other process additives, are inherently very pure, hydrophobic, and resist microbial attack even under favorable conditions such as temperatures from 35-100°F and relative humidity from 60 to 100%.

These coatings are classified as compliant with the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) Classification VI.