Leading Food Grade Stainless Steel & Alloy Manufacturer in China
Food and beverage industry’s problems are rarely only corrosion, the real problems include hygiene risks arising from surface defects, weld dead zones and inconsistent surface treatments. These problems reduce the efficiency of CIP/SIP cleaning and increase scrap rates. SparkX provides widely used stainless steel materials and including tube, pipers for production lines, sheets, strips for tanks and covers, bars for valve bodies, shafts, pump parts and wire for springs and clamps. SparkX focuses on stainless steel & special alloy 35years and we have extremely advantages in manufacturing bars and wires, precision wires and cold worked products. This can allow us to help you to control surface cleanliness and repeatable processing performance, making your equipment easier to polish, weld, clean.
Related Grades of Food & Beverage
If you have any other needs or require customization, please feel free to contact us.
Low carbon austenitic stainless steel and has excellent weldability and clean surface finish, reliable corrosion resistance, suitable for sanitary manufacturing.
Containing molybdenum low carbon stainless steel and maintains excellent resistance to pitting corrosion in chlorides, ideal for sanitary piping and CIP systems.
Titanium stabilized stainless steel and not easy to sensitization after welding, can maintain corrosion resistance under thermal cycling, very suitable for heating process pipelines.
High strength duplex stainless steel has excellent resistance to chloride stress corrosion cracking, making it with thinner wall thicknesses and maintaining good corrosion resistance.
Cleanable Surface
Food grade stainless steel product problems are not always easy to see them. For example, the problems are usually not clearly rust, but rather the small problems such as scratches, dents or rough welds. These small problems can lead to the growth of many bacteria, and reduce the effectiveness of cleaning your equipment and ultimately leading to food safety problems. So this is why the grade, finishes and processing route are all very important. SparkX supports this and focuses on stable surface quality and multiple forms and grades to meet polish and weld predictably. Our 304L is common for many internal surfaces in mild media, and 316L is often used for chloride cleaners, acidic CIP chemicals or salt exposure. If you are not sure how to choose the right brand for your equipment, please feel free to contact us. Our professional team will develop the most suitable solution for you.
Weld Dead-Legs, Heat Tint and Rework
Food lines and tank’s assembly process is very complex, so this is why the hygiene risks are often caused by welding quality and geometry control. Dead corners, unstable assembly gaps and excessive heat input can make rough welds and heat discoloring oxide scale on the inner wall, it can only be polished and re-passivated, and have high rework costs. SparkX strictly controls the material consistency, it can save you many costs and ensures consistent pipe roundness and wall thickness tolerances, making your assembly and welding easier. Consistent sheet and strip flatness can reduce deformation, clean rods improve the machining of sanitary valve parts. SparkX provides sustainable supply solutions based on your manufacturing processes, making it easier to control heat input and reduce rework.
Cleaning Chemistry Pain Point
Effectiveness of CIP depends on the chemical composition, but corrosion risk also depends on the chemical composition. If the concentration, temperature and residence time are not properly controlled, cleaning agents with chloride, acidic descaling agents and high temperature alkaline solutions can corrode stainless steel, especially in crevices and gasket interfaces. SparkX provides suitable materials based on your cleaning solution. When the exposure to chloride cleaner or salts high, we recommend choosing 316L stainless steel, some other parts may need to use higher grade alloys to cope with specific corrosive cleaners. No matter what grade of stainless steel or alloy you need, even other customized requirements, SparkX’s 40+ R&D team can always meet all your needs.
304L is commonly suitable for mild environments, if you are using chlorine based cleaners, acidic CIP cleaning or contact with salt then 316L is always more safer.
You need to confirm the surface condition and target roughness of the contact surface, and ensure the treatment method for post-weld heat discoloration(picking/passivation).
This is usually due to chemicals and crevices, not caused by grade. Chlorides, combined with high temperatures and residence time, will first corrode the gasket interface and deposits, so the cleaning protocol and design details must be tailored to the material.
