In the agri-food sector, the choice of materials plays a fundamental role in ensuring safety, hygiene, and product protection throughout all phases of storage, conservation, and processing. Fiberglass products intended for contact with food, beverages, and preserves must meet high requirements in terms of resistance, surface finish, and regulatory compliance.
In this context, food-grade gelcoat represents a solution specifically formulated to enable fiberglass processors to manufacture products suitable for food contact, when applied and treated correctly. In this article, we analyse its features, certifications, and main applications in the food sector.
1. Certified safety for food contact
Poly3 gelcoat complies with current food safety regulations and has obtained the “Accredia” (Italian Accreditation Body) certification, through the International Merieux Institute, which is recognized at European level for its high expertise in testing and validating materials intended for food contact.
This certification represents a real guarantee and ensures:
2. Smooth and easily sanitizable surfaces
Poly3 gelcoat makes it possible to obtain smooth, high-quality surfaces designed to be easily sanitizable. This feature is essential to ensure high hygiene standards and to facilitate cleaning operations of products supposed to come in contact with food.
3. High chemical resistance
The product offers excellent resistance to substances commonly found in the food sector, ensuring stability and reliability over time. In particular, it resists:
4. Stability and durability over time
Thanks to its chemical-physical properties, Poly3 gelcoat ensures high resistance and long service life even in humid environments or those subject to temperature variations, maintaining unchanged performance and surface quality of the finished product.
Food-grade gelcoat represents a key element in ensuring safety, hygiene, and reliability to fiberglass products intended for the agri-food sector. Thanks to its specific formulation, its high chemical-physical performance, and to the Accredia certification through the International Merieux Institute, Poly3 gelcoat offers a compliant, safe, and durable solution.
Choosing a certified gelcoat means granting the quality of the final product, preventing the release of unwanted substances, and ensuring high safety standards for the end customer.
Contact us to learn more about Poly3 solutions for food use.
In this context, food-grade gelcoat represents a solution specifically formulated to enable fiberglass processors to manufacture products suitable for food contact, when applied and treated correctly. In this article, we analyse its features, certifications, and main applications in the food sector.
Food-grade gelcoat: key features and essential requirements
Poly3 food-grade gelcoat has been developed for the manufacturing of fiberglass products intended for the storage and conservation of food, beverages, and preserves. Thanks to its chemical-physical properties, it ensures:1. Certified safety for food contact
Poly3 gelcoat complies with current food safety regulations and has obtained the “Accredia” (Italian Accreditation Body) certification, through the International Merieux Institute, which is recognized at European level for its high expertise in testing and validating materials intended for food contact.
This certification represents a real guarantee and ensures:
- regulatory compliance,
- material reliability,
- safety for use in the food sector.
2. Smooth and easily sanitizable surfaces
Poly3 gelcoat makes it possible to obtain smooth, high-quality surfaces designed to be easily sanitizable. This feature is essential to ensure high hygiene standards and to facilitate cleaning operations of products supposed to come in contact with food.
3. High chemical resistance
The product offers excellent resistance to substances commonly found in the food sector, ensuring stability and reliability over time. In particular, it resists:
- acidic substances,
- sugary substances,
- saline solutions.
4. Stability and durability over time
Thanks to its chemical-physical properties, Poly3 gelcoat ensures high resistance and long service life even in humid environments or those subject to temperature variations, maintaining unchanged performance and surface quality of the finished product.
Sectors and applications: where food-grade gelcoat makes the difference
Poly3 food-grade gelcoat is used in numerous domains of the agri-food sector, particularly in the manufacture of fiberglass products intended for storage and conservation.- Food storage and conservation
It is ideal for the production of silos, tanks, and containers intended for food storage, thanks to its chemical resistance, ease of sanitization, and certified safety for food contact.
- Food industry and processing
Poly3 gelcoat finds application in the production of tanks and containers aimed at food processing operations, where it is necessary to preserve the properties of the stored products and ensure safe surfaces compliant with regulations.
- Beverages and preserves
Thanks to its specific formulation, Poly 3 food-grade gelcoat does not emit unwanted substances, and it helps keep the characteristics of beverages and preserves unchanged during containment and storage phases.
Food-grade gelcoat represents a key element in ensuring safety, hygiene, and reliability to fiberglass products intended for the agri-food sector. Thanks to its specific formulation, its high chemical-physical performance, and to the Accredia certification through the International Merieux Institute, Poly3 gelcoat offers a compliant, safe, and durable solution.
Choosing a certified gelcoat means granting the quality of the final product, preventing the release of unwanted substances, and ensuring high safety standards for the end customer.
Contact us to learn more about Poly3 solutions for food use.