Additives Help Safeguard Against Plastic Contamination

Eriez PolyMag additives impart metal detectability, x-ray contrast, and magnetic susceptibility into plastic moldings to detect plastic contamination in food products. By incorporating these additives, manufacturers can ensure product purity and consumer safety while helping to prevent expensive, reputation-damaging product recalls.  
 
PolyMag additives are provided in a non-dusting pellet, allowing molders and extruders to produce metal detectable and x-ray visible plastic parts for food contact applications. Today, major restaurant chains insist that food processors utilize plastic and rubber articles that are metal and x-ray detectable. This has become part of many companies’ HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) programs.
 
These FDA-compliant additives can be sued for cable ties, conveyor belts, ear plugs, elevator buckets, gaskets, pallets, totes, pens, markers, scoops, shovels, scraper blades, sifter cleaning balls and sliders, tags, labels, and more. They are typically included at 10 to 20 percent loadings in moldings and extrusions.
 
Resins containing the PolyMag Gray HSCP can be pigmented darker colors such as blue, gray, green, red, and purple. The lower cost PolyMag Black HSCP is suitable for black applications. PolyMag Beige XRD is preferred for applications that require a high level of x-ray contrast. Molders can include both the PolyMag HSCP and XRD masterbatch additives to impart metal detectability and x-ray contrast in plastic parts. Eriez can also work with manufacturers to create custom molding compounds.
 
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