Essentials

VMQ Silicone Rubber

Material

anes. Silicone is very commonly

Application Profile Food & Drug:

used in seals for butterfly valves.

As silicone rubber, VMQ is especially

well-suited for use in animal and vegeta-

rubber)
Color

Transparent

Cross-linking

Peroxide

Hardness Shore A

70 5

(DIN 53505)

(test plate)
1.180.02 g/cm3

ble fats, oils and waxes, and in essential

media and its high elasticity ensure that

oils; it can also be used in high tempera-

seals for butterfly valves offer reliable per-

ture ranges. VMQ is equally suitable for

Density

formance throughout their service lives. A

use in continuous operation facilities with

(DIN EN ISO 1183)

further argument for VMQ silicone in con-

CIP / SIP cleaning media in the food and

Rebound resilience

tact with foodstuffs and pharmaceuticals

beverage and pharmaceutical industries,

is its purity, clearly visible by checking its

except where steam sterilization is used.

VMQ should not be used in concentrated

especially to cleansers, are not optimal.

acids (e.g. nitric or formic acid), concentrated oxidizing media (e.g. peracetic

General Characteristics:

acid), in water or steam over 100 C, es-

ters or ethers, or aromatic hydrocarbons.

Outstanding resistance to warmth and

heat

It should also be kept in mind that, though

The best low-temperature flexibility

VMQ does not swell, it can lose hardness

Technical performance largely

and tensile strength when exposed to

unaffected by temperature

certain media.

Very good resistance to weathering,

aging and ozone

32 %

(DIN 53512)
Tensile strength (DIN

9.8 N/mm2

53504)
Elongation at break

cal durability and chemical resistance,

Silicone (vinyl
methyl silicone

Silicones minimal volume expansion in

transparency, though silicones mechani-

Markets

Technical Specifications

470 %

Materials

70 VMQ 117055

polymer vinyl methyl polysilox-

(DIN 53504)
Compression set

< 30 %

(DIN ISO 815)

(22 h, 175 C, 25%)
Temperature resistance

50 C to
+200 C

Approvals
FDA-compliant (CFR 21 Part 177.2600)
Animal derived ingredient free (ADI free)
3-A Sanitary Standards Class I
(sterilization temperature 149 C,
cleaning temperature 82 C)

Products / compounds

USP Plastic Class VI at 121 C

Resistance

VMQ silicone rubbers are high-

High gas permeability

Very good physiological characteristics
Very good dielectric properties
Good resistance to synthetic, animal

and vegetable oils; glycols, nonflammable hydraulic fluids, and various

solvents
Not resistant to low molecular weight

esters or ethers, aliphatic or aromatic

hydrocarbons
Temperature resistance from 60 C to

O-rings, customer-specific molded

parts made of 70 VMQ 117055

Diaphragms made of 60 VMQ

117117/ 75 VMQ 176643

Seals for butterfly valves made of

75 VMQ 176643
Clamp seals made of 70 VMQ

37804
Seals for dairy couplings made of

70 VMQ 37740

Products

+200 C

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