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Food-Grade Defoamers
Zerachem® Food
Foam control in your food processes doesn’t have to be a challenge. Our antifoams are the backbone that drives your operation: improving efficiency, reducing costs, increasing production capacity, and ensuring continuous, interruption-free processes. As your technical partner, we guarantee a stable process and a flawless final product.
Antifoamzera A20
Food-Grade Defoamers
Dairy, juices, preserves, jams, cocoa products, beer, pasta, and more.
Antifoamzera A30
Food-Grade Defoamers
Alcohol distillation, fruit concentrates, chocolate, confectionery, sauces, and fermented products.
Antifoamzera
Powder Food Grade
Food-Grade Defoamers
Precise foam control without altering the functionality or key properties of the final product.
Manufacturers of Chemical Solutions That Safeguard Your Quality
In a market full of distributors, our promise is to be your chemical laboratory. We don’t just supply a food-grade antifoam; we commit to the success of your production.
As manufacturers, if you require a formulation adjustment for your specific process, our R&D laboratory develops and tailors it to your exact needs.
Our solutions, such as Antifoamzera A20, are Kosher-certified, providing the assurance you need to meet the most demanding audits.
If an issue arises, our team is available at your food production facility to resolve it. We act as your local guarantee and technical partner throughout the approval and qualification process.
The Hidden Cost of in Your Food Plant
You experience it every day. It’s not just a spill:
- It’s a batch with inconsistent texture because trapped air altered density.
- It’s filling errors that affect net weight and your profitability.
- It’s the risk of contamination that puts your compliance at stake.
A generic food-grade antifoam can fail where it matters most: batch-to-batch consistency costing you time, money, and peace of mind.
The Precise Solution to Protect
Your Product and Your Process
We’ve designed food-grade antifoams tailored to each of your challenges.
The smart choice for food foam control. Its dual technical action not only collapses surface foam but also releases trapped air, ensuring predictable density and a uniform texture that safeguards your brand’s reputation in every package.
The ultimate advantage for dry-mix formulators. Our food-grade powdered antifoam is an encapsulated solution, suitable for applications in pharmaceuticals, beverages, confectionery, chocolates, and more. This approach helps prevent waste, ensures accurate dosing, and delivers a competitive edge in the quality of your products.
FAQ
A wide variety of defoaming additives are available on the market, composed of silicones, mineral oils, polyethers, and vegetable oils. Depending on your specific need, foam type, process conditions, and compatibility, manufacturers range from highly effective polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) emulsions to pure compounds for handling and control at each stage of production.
It is important to note that randomly selecting a defoamer on its own is not enough, the best defoaming solution is achieved through a thorough analysis of the production process, along with expert guidance to ensure compatibility. Affinity and high efficiency are among the key benefits offered by Zerachem’s defoaming solutions, a Colombian company that manufactures custom defoamers tailored to the exact needs of each company’s process.
Defoamers are technological additives that control foam generation in production processes, increasing productivity without altering the organoleptic characteristics of the final product, and resolving the problems that foam can cause in food manufacturing:
1. Safety conditions:
Overflow and/or spillage in milk pasteurization, alcoholic beverage fermentation, and pulp processing can lead to non-compliance with safety and hygiene standards, potentially resulting in accidents, facility damage, and sanctions from regulatory authorities.
2. Impact on measurement accuracy:
A manufacturer of soups, sauces, and beverages in general (alcoholic, dairy, carbonated, etc.) cannot afford to operate with foam at any stage of production. Not only are factors such as ease of handling and equipment maintenance affected, but quality conditions such as filling precision (foam that skews the final weight or volume of the container), hermetic sealing, and visual presentation are also compromised, all of which can result in both financial and reputational losses.
3. Production downtime:
Uncontrolled foam typically overflows boilers, disables measurement controls, affects the final product, and slows down processes. This forces companies to halt production, stop agitation, shut down heating, and/or hold a product while waiting for foam volume to decrease.
Taking the above into account and with the goal of minimizing and resolving operational disruptions in each process, Zerachem’s defoaming solution acts as a highly compatible additive, requiring minimal doses to guarantee effectiveness, with properties that do not alter the organoleptic characteristics of final products.
Defoamers are classified according to their chemical composition:
Silicone-based defoamers are used across multiple industries, including food, pharmaceutical, and water treatment, among others.
Oil-based defoamers (mineral or vegetable) are used in the paint, lubricant, and adhesive industries to control foam.
Fatty alcohol-based defoamers are used both as defoamers and deaerators in the paper and water treatment industries.
Powder defoamers are used to control foam in the manufacturing of powder-based products such as detergents, cements, and dry industrial products.
Zerachem’s full line of defoamers rapidly controls foam, functioning both as a knock-out defoamer at critical control points and as a preventive antifoam agent, request your free sample today.
Foam is generated when gas becomes trapped in a liquid or solid that, due to its characteristics, exhibits low surface tension, ensuring bubble stabilization. Some of the main contributing factors include surfactants (surface-active agents that in soaps reduce the surface tension of water), agitation speed during processes, the total solids percentage of the mixture, carbon dioxide release in reaction-based processes, and even mixing with organic material undergoing decomposition.
For foam reduction, control, and elimination, depending on the scale, process adjustments, raw material reassessment, or the integration of defoaming solutions such as those offered by Zerachem may be implemented. Thanks to their compatibility across different pH levels, ease of dilution, rapid spreading, and foam control effectiveness, Zerachem’s solutions guarantee foam growth and generation reduction at minimal doses.
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