Food Contact™
FoodContact™ glass fiber solutions for reinforced thermoplastics*
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Coffee Machine
Coffee machines include many components which come into contact with the water and coffee, either for multi-serve drip-filters, single serve with pod- open systems, single serve capsules-closed systems, single serve, espresso capsules and fully automatic espresso.
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Kitchen Appliance
By definition, most kitchen appliances are in contact with food (chef & food mixers/processors, bread and waffle makers, steamers & cookers, etc).
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Houseware
Most of the houseware applications are kitchenware and cookware
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Food Processing
Segments of the food processing industry include machinery used for processing and packaging food and beverages, large scale baking, dryers, meat processing and large scale food mixing.
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Drinking Water
The main applications which make up this water contact market are water meters, water pumps and valves/fittings.
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Commission Regulation (EU) N° 10/2011 of 14 January 2011
On plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food.
What does it change?
- Main change: Glass fiber is now included in the scope of the regulation
- Glass fiber must comply with the European Union list of authorized substances
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What are the deadlines?
- 1st of January 2016: Compliance with union list of authorized substances
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How to be prepared?
- Understand the impact on your products
- Develop and implement compliant material solutions where necessary
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Compliance with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) EU regulation 2023/2006
What should you expect from your material supplier?
- Prevention of risk (contamination, etc)
- QA/QC system
- Supporting documentation and traceability
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Owens Corning Solutions
- If you are using reinforced Polyamide (PA) materials
Please see our FoodContact™ 295 Solution
- If you are using reinforced high temperature thermoplastics materials
Please see our FoodContact™ 210 Solution
- If you are using reinforced Polyphenyleneoxide (PPO) materials
Please see our FoodContact™ 242 Solution
- If you are using other reinforced thermoplastic materials
We can offer our FoodContact™ solutions for other reinforced thermoplastic materials. Please Contact Us
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