Nowadays, food-grade silicone tubes are becoming more and more popular. Therefore, there are more and more silicone pipe suppliers. But some people just store the silicone tubes randomly after buying them. This results in accelerated aging of the hose. Much of this aging can be controlled. Now let’s talk about the aging problem of food grade silicone tube?
Environmental factors
Such as ozone, thermal light rays, etc. The dangers of ozone have increased. With the increase of ozone in the earth’s atmosphere, the chemical activity of ozone increases. It breaks molecular chains. Ozone has increased harm to food-grade silicone tube. It can cause the silicone tube to crack. Chemical action is also an aspect of silicone hose aging. Oxygen passes through the silicone molecules in the vulcanized rubber to produce aging effects. Then the molecular chain breaks, which cause changes in the properties of the silicone.
Silicone is easily damaged when exposed to humidity, rain or water. Especially under water immersion and air exposure, the aging of food-grade silicone tubes will be accelerated.
Due to internal structure
These include forming method, bonding level, type of drug, factors in the production process, etc. In addition, there are many small problems that can also endanger the service life of silicone tubes.
More important, the quality of raw material determines the quality of the hose. As I mentioned in the beginning, there are more and more suppliers of silicone hose. But not all of them can provide you qualified silicone hose pipe. In fact, some of them use recycled material or add more additives into the hose. Then the quality of silicone hose will reduce. Then there will be various problems such as aging, failure, etc.
Orientflex is a professional hose manufacturer which insists providing you high quality hose products. And our hose is famous for good quality and reasonable price. If you need a reliable silicone hose, Orientflex will be your unique choice.