How To Make Silicone Plate?
What is the Silicone plate?
Silicone plates is a baby or kids tableware made of Food Grade silicone rubber materials. It has the advantages of being non-toxic and tasteless, resistant to high and low temperatures, bright colors, and soft to the touch.
This kind of dinner plate usually adopts a Partition design, which can hold rice, vegetables, soup and other foods at the same time, and is suitable for use in parent-child restaurants or families.
Silicone dinner plates are not only favored for their environmentally friendly and healthy, but also for their softness, easy cleaning and durability making them a popular dining utensil.
Simultaneously, the design of silicone dinner plates also focuses on practicality, which can well meet the diverse needs of modern families for tableware. Compared with ceramic, plastic, and hardware dinner plates, silicone dinner plates are in harmony with temperature. Whether the food is cold or hot, they can protect the temperature of the food itself and reduce temperature changes and losses. Food placed in silicone bowls or basins for a period of time can still maintain the original temperature, and will not pass the corresponding temperature to the user when used.
Custom Silicone Baby Plates
How to make the silicone plate?
1. Design 3D structure of the silicone plate according to your idea
2. Make the silicone plate tooling according to the silicone plate design requirements (Signal color or multi color) use the different metal, such as steel, copper or AL to ensure the accuracy and durability of the tooling. Check the (Prototype and Mold Development Service) to know more about silicone tooling making process.
Jution Silicone & Rubber (Dongguan) Co., LTD ’s in-house tool shop consists of 21 latest state-of-the-art 3-axis CNC machines and 5 EDM machines. Our proprietary CNC milling and machining processes enable quick turnaround and beat your deadlines with our quick-turn CNC machining.
3. 3.Prepare the silicone raw material: Raw materials are the key to silicone maternal and infant products. Usually, infant products meet certain environmental protection standards, so silicone materials are no exception. Normally, environmentally friendly Fumed silicone rubber is selected for customized processing, while many manufacturers use Precipitated silicone rubber for processing. Although the product is not greatly affected, it is still different Fumed silicone rubber from in quality after a long time. Mix the silicone color according to your silicone plate needed. Cutting the mixed silicone material in the correct weight.
4. Feeding the prepared silicone mixed material on-no matter Liquid siilcone rubber or solid siilcone rubber in to the mold.
5. Curing the silicone plate: The silicone material is feeding into the mold after mixing, and the silicone material is filled into the entire space of the mold through heating and pressure. The temperature, pressure and time control of the molding process directly affect the size, shape and quality of the product.
No matter the silicone baby mats was made by: Compression molding or co-injection molding or LSR molding.
6. Demold: After the curing is completed, take the silicone plate product out of the mold.
7. QC the silicone plate: Quality inspection: Visually inspect the molded silicone plate to see if there is lack of material, uncooked Ness, or impurities
8. Post-processing: Carry out the silicone plate and then do the post processing and treatment, such as trimming, grinding, polishing, spraying, inspection, etc.
9. Secondary vulcanization: Secondary vulcanization is a process that must be handled for any product that has passed the inspection. The main reason why infant silicone products have a certain smell is that they have not been subjected to Secondary vulcanization baking, and the catalyst of the raw materials of the products has not been emitted. At present, many silicone children’s product manufacturers basically handle it, but the time and temperature of the Secondary vulcanization treatment are different. Bake in oven 2-4 hours to meet FDA or LFGB Standard. LSR silicone plate may do not need this process.
10. LOGO or Pattern printing if needed: screen printing or laser engraving. Most of time, we put the silicone plate logo on the silicone tooling directly. Check the products branding service to know more.
Silicone Baby Products Branding Service
11. Final Quality control and testing: After all the silicone plate making process finished, we will arrange the final QC for the teether before the delivery. More information for the QC.
Quality Control and Standards
12. Package and Warehouse: Jution silicone offer custom packaging solutions you need for all your product packaging. Our custom packaging includes paper boxes, PE/PVC boxes, printed labels, hangtags, barcode stickers, etc to protect the safety of the product during transportation and storage, while ensuring the safety and aesthetics of the product.
In Jution silicone, we manufacture the silicone plate according to the client’s design and idea. We try our best to deliver the quality silicone plate to our customer.
Why do you need make the silicone plate?
When you need to create your own baby and children products brand, When you need to promotional your children and baby products with a promotion gift. When you need a souvenir for your upcoming event or get-together. The branded silicone plate with added your logo, design pattern, text may be your good choices.
Usually, silicone children’s products such as silicone plate are made of solid silicone rubber and liquid silicone rubber.
The process is silicone compression molding and co-injection molding(multi-colors) or LSR molding:
Custom Silicone Compression Molding Service
Custom LSR(Liquid Silicone Rubber) Injection Molding Service
The two process have different advantages and differences.
The solid silicone rubber plates product cost is relatively low. The products produced can also reach environmentally friendly food grade, with high-quality materials, which is the choice of many consumers.
The liquid silicone processing is relatively high cost. It is processed with liquid silicone rubber with water-like materials. The Liquid silicone rubber plate feels more softer, has better rebound, and the parting line is smaller than that of solid silicone. However, the minimum order of the silicone plate is higher. And the LSR plate injection mold cost is higher also.
When need the silicone plate?
‌Silicone dinner plates are suitable for babies over 6 months, especially when babies begin to learn to eat independently, Silicone dinner plates become an indispensable choice.
Silicone dinner plates have unique advantages, such as being soft and easy to bend, brightly colored, and cute in shape such as dog , car, flower ,smile shape etc , which can stimulate babies’ interest in dining.
At the same time, silicone material is resistant to high temperatures and easy to disinfect, making it very suitable for babies who are just beginning to learn to eat independently.
In addition, silicone dinner plates are usually equipped with large suction cups that can be attached to dining chairs to prevent tipping over and ensure the safety of babies during eating.
Use the silicone dinner plates not only helps babies learn to eat independently, but also trains babies’ fine hand movements. It is also a healthy and safe choice of tableware that does not produce any harmful substances to the human body, and its smooth surface does not easily breed bacteria‌.
Notice: When the parents buy the silicone dinner plates, should pay attention to:
- ‌Check the product label‌: Make sure the the silicone plate label or package content is complete, including material information and national food safety standards.
- ‌Choose surface quality‌: Choose silicone plates with a flat, smooth surface, no burrs and debris.
- ‌Smell the odor‌: Sniff with your nose to avoid choosing the silicone paltes with odor.
- ‌Wipe test‌: Wipe the surface of the the silicone plates with a white paper towel to avoid choosing products that fade after wiping.
In addition, when using silicone dinner plates, they should be cleaned and maintained according to the requirements of the product label or instructions, and avoid using high-intensity cleaning tools such as coarse cloth or steel wool to prevent damage to the silicone surface. During use, you should also be careful not to let silicone plates come into contact with high temperatures for a long time to avoid affecting its service life and safety.
It should be noted that when parents choose the silicone plates for their babies, they should choose products that meet hygiene standards and follow the correct usage methods to avoid accidental injuries caused by improper use.
The advantage of silicone plate?
‌‌The advantages of the silicone baby plates are: safety, durability, easy cleaning, temperature adaptability and multifunctional design. ‌
These advantages make silicone baby plates the first choice for parents when choosing tableware for their children. It not only ensures the safety of children’s food, but also facilitates parents’ cleaning work, and also promotes the development of children’s self-care ability.
Further Reading:
How much of the silicone plate？
From 1.78USD-23.75USD/pcs depend on the design and structure and package
In Jution Silicone, we custom the silicone plate shape, size, color, pattern and brands for your own silicone plate, if you would like to custom your brands silicone plate, contact jution.
Final Conclusion:
In Jution silicone, all the silicone plate from raw material selection to molding, curing, and quality control, each step plays a vital role in creating silicone plate that meet safety standards and perform well in their intended applications.
Understanding the silicone plate manufacturing process is essential for sellers, allowing them to offer high-quality, safe products to their customers.
Contact Jution silicone to brand your own silicone plate by contract manufacturing.
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