Usages

Advanced Materials Enable Innovative Cooking Appliances

Today’s cooking appliances are expected to deliver innovative functionalities, durable performance and long-lasting reliability. Advanced manufacturers and designers can achieve these complex requirements when they select the optimal materials for each application. Syensqo’s high-performance polymers with food contact approvals can provide these benefits and more in cooking appliances.

Air Fryers

In many cooking appliances made for consumer use, such as air fryers, cost-effective manufacturing and optimized performance are essential. High-performance polymers deliver these performance features, plus additional benefits like mechanical strength and high-temperature resistance. Specifically, Omnix® HPPA provides ideal thermal performance and hydrolytic stability in air fryers when PA 6.6 is no longer enough. Learn more about how Omnix® HPPA optimizes air fryer components.

Coffee Machines

For modern coffee machines—including drip filters, capsules, and espresso makers—OEMs require resilient, high-temperature materials that offer excellent resistance to steam, hot water, and other fluids. Accordingly, replacing metal with high-performance polymers remains a focus for manufacturers of these appliances, as plastics often outperform metal in harsh environments that are particularly susceptible to corrosion or cracking. Syensqo’s Ixef® PARA and KetaSpire® PEEK are outstanding examples, and OEMs utilize these food-contact approved polymers, among others, for today’s most advanced coffee machine components.

Food Processors

As consumers continue to demand more efficient and ergonomic cooking appliances, products like food processors and slow cookers require increasingly durable and lightweight materials that enable for improved design freedom and enhanced aesthetics. Syensqo’s high-performance specialty polymers for cooking appliances offer a variety of optimal solutions to replace metal, reduce NVH and improve the reliability of several food processor components. 

Kitchen Utensils

Today’s consumers demand increasingly resilient kitchenware, and OEMs require economical materials to develop these durable, dishwasher-safe kitchen utensils. Syensqo’s Amodel® PPA and collection of sulfone polymers—Radel® PPSU, Udel® PSU and Veradel® PESU—are choice solutions for overcoming the challenges in kitchen utensil manufacturing. These high-performance specialty polymers demonstrate highly sought after performance and processing characteristics, such as exceptional flowability, heat and steam resistance, transparency and chemical resistance. With global food contact approval and BPA-free properties, our portfolio of polymers facilitate the industry’s most dependable spatulas, tableware, food service containers, cookware and other kitchen utensils.