How to create private silicone placemats?
This article mainly introduces the advantages, production equipment, production process, etc. of silicone placemats. If you want to create your own silicone placemat brand or business, and have a clear understanding of the advantages, application areas, design, and production process of silicone placemats, please go through this article. Silicone placemats have the advantages of high and low temperature resistance -40-230°C, Tension and flexibility , and Diverse shapes and appearance. They are widely used in baby, homeware, personal care, and medical or industrial areas.
Silicone placemats can be placed on the dining table, which not only enhances the overall temperament of the restaurant, but also provides additional safety during dining. Even if food falls on the placemat, it can be eaten safely.
Anti-slip and heat-insulating: Silicone placemats have excellent anti-slip and heat-insulating properties, which can firmly fix tableware to prevent slipping and collisions, while protecting the tabletop from damage by hot food.
Out-of-home dining
Portability: Silicone placemats are portable and lightweight, suitable for use when dining out. It prevents food from falling and is easy to clean up.
What is the silicone placemat?
Silicone placemats crafted from made of 100% food grade silicone material.
They are all high elasticity, pressure resistance, high temperature resistance and low temperature resistance.
It is also chemically stable, BPA- PVC, BPS, lead, phthalate free. Oven & Dishwasher Safe, environmentally safe and odorless., are flexible, foldable, washable, and heat-resistant.
It has excellent heat insulation performance. It not only enhances the overall temperament of the restaurant, but also provides additional safety during meals. Even if food falls on the placemat, it can be eaten safely. It can effectively protect the dining table and tableware and prevent high-temperature food from directly contacting the tabletop and causing damage.
In addition, silicone placemats are also beautiful and have a variety of designs to meet different decoration needs.
In terms of usage scenarios, silicone placemats are suitable for various dining occasions, including homes, restaurants, schools. garden tables, and bars. Custom sizes and shapes are also available upon request. They are usually designed to be foldable or rollable, which is convenient to carry and store, and suitable for use in different environments.
Z.S.R existing rectangular shapes are ideal for customization with logos, which can be added through silkscreen printing, full-color printing, or dye sublimation.
What are the advantages of silicone placemat?
Environmental protection and non-toxicity: silicone placemats are made of environmentally friendly food grade silicone material, non-toxic and tasteless, insoluble in water and any solvents, and are highly active green products. Food-grade silicone placemats are non-toxic and tasteless, and are suitable for various occasions that require safety assurance.
Durability: Silicone placemats usually have a long service life, are not easy to dent, and can maintain good support. In addition, the silicone pad has stable chemical properties, high temperature resistance 230 C, low temperature resistance -40 C, pressure resistance, environmental protection and safety, and no odor.
Tension and flexibility: The silicone placemats have a certain tension and flexibility, which can provide good support and cushioning effects in different application scenarios.
Easy to clean: The silicone placemats Non-Slip, Oil Proof, Water Proof, Heat Resistant, Stain Resistant, are the perfect meal time accessory, saving your table and cleaning time. Stains can be easily wiped away with a damp rag or paper napkin, and the silicone placemats non-porous, crease-free are dishwasher safe for easy cleanup. just wipe off or toss in the dishwasher.
Diverse shapes and appearance: silicone placemats come in a variety of styles, including simple style, cartoon style, multi-element style, etc., to meet different aesthetic needs. which are environmentally friendly and non-toxic, with excellent thermal insulation performance, which enhances the overall temperament of the restaurant while providing safety protection
Comfortable feel: silicone placemats are soft silicone, comfortable to the touch, and different from traditional hard mats.
Z.S.R offers various silicone placemats for babies and toddlers in playful designs. The silicone placemat baby essentials for tidy mealtimes. Non-slip, easy-clean surfaces in minimalist designs. Perfect for playful dining. Slip-resistant material helps plates, bowls and cups stay in place. These mats keep mealtimes clean and pair well with Z.S.R bibs. Some of Z.S.R silicone placemats come with a raised edge perimeter to keep the liquid drop off.
Silicone Placemats
Materials, Tools, Equipment
According to the molded products making process, there are 5 ways of silicone molding process: silicone rubber compression molding, LSR injection molding, silicone Drip molding, silicone Extrusion Molding, silicone Calendaring molding. Here in Z.S.R, For silicone placemats, we only have 4 molding process capacity. The different molding process need the different material, tools and equipment:
Silicone compression molding
Silicone Compression Molding
The main materials required for the production of silicone placemats include silicone raw material, crosslinking agent, catalyst, filler and additives. These materials working together to get the silicone placemats. Usually, silicone rubber raw material, crosslinking agent and filler are made into one component, and catalyst is a separate component. Therefore, mold silicone products is also called two-component vulcanized silicone products. In Z.S.R, All the silicone raw material we used is FDA or LFGB approved 100% Food Grade silicone rubber. The crosslinking agent, catalyst is Platinum if you needed.
The solid silicone rubber silicone placemat cost is relatively low. The silicone placemat produced can also reach environmentally friendly food grade, with high-quality Food Grade material, which is the choice of many consumers from USA, Australia.
Material preparation:Choice the correct standard material according to your products function and test standard, such as FDA or LFGB material.
Silicone rubber mixer: The silicone rubber material mixer is used to mix the raw materials with additives such as vulcanizer and color paste. used to add vulcanizer, masterbatch and other auxiliary materials to the raw materials, and refine the raw rubber into usable raw rubber. Z.S.R have 2 Silicone rubber mixer workshop and machine to mixed the material for your silicone placemats.
Silicone Rubber cutter:cuts the refined silicone placematerial into the required size and weight for making products. Z.S.R have 2 silicone rubber cutting machine to cut the material for your silicone placemats.
Electronic scale: Weight the cutted silicone rubber mixed material to ensure that the product is within the error range. We have more than 60 Electronic scales for each silicone compression molding machine.
Mold preparation: Before the silicone placemats making, Make the corresponding mold according to the product design requirements. The shape and size of the mold determine the shape and size of the product. The mold material is usually Steel or aluminum alloy (prototype tooling). Z.S.R International Group (HONG KONG) CO., LIMITED in-house tool shop consists 6 sets of advanced CNC machining centers and 3 sets of EDM spark machines for tooling; So, we can make most of the silicone placemat tooling and repair the silicone placemat tooling in our factory to catch up your time needed. The complete mold work shop can help you develop your new design silicone products and offer the creative silicone placemats OEM & ODM service for you.
Molding stage: Install the prepared mold on the vulcanizer to ensure that the mold fits well and is well sealed. the hydraulic compress molding machine (also known as the flat vulcanizer) provides the pressure, mold temperature and vulcanization time required for molding; After the mold is heated to the appropriate temperature, the prepared silicone raw material is placed in the mold for molding. During the molding process, parameters such as temperature, pressure and time need to be controlled to ensure that the product is molded completely and the size is accurate.Z.S.R have 32 sets silicone rubber molding machine to molded your silicone products.
The sandblasting machine is used to clean the molding mold and keep the production process clean.
Post-processing: The silicone placemats need to be post-processed such as deburring, cleaning, and drying to improve the appearance quality and durability of the product.
Quality inspection: Quality inspection is an important link to ensure the quality of silicone products, including appearance inspection, size measurement, performance testing and other aspects. Only products that have undergone strict quality inspection can be shipped out of the factory.
Packaging and shipment: Products that have passed quality inspection need to be packaged and shipped. The selection of packaging materials should comply with relevant standards and requirements to ensure that the product is not damaged during transportation.
Z.S.R one day mass production capability for 15000-59999/pcs silicone molds according to the structure and size with the 32 sets molding machines.
Contact Z.S.R to create your own silicone molds.
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L.S.R injection molding
Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR) Injection Molding
Liquid silicone injection molding mainly uses liquid silicone rubber (LSR) material. LSR is a two-component thermosetting material, usually mixed in the form of A/B components. Component A contains a platinum catalyst, while component B contains a cross-linking agent. LSR is in a liquid state before curing and becomes an elastomer after curing.
Material preparation:
Choose the appropriate liquid silicone type based on a comprehensive assessment of the product’s purpose, properties, shape, etc. For example, the medical industry should choose medical-grade silicone placematerials, and infant products generally use highly transparent food-grade liquid silicone raw materials. Prepare the appropriate color paste so that it can be mixed to achieve the final LSR molded product color that customer needed.
Mixing equipment: It is used to mix the liquid silicone of components A and B to ensure accurate proportions and uniform mixing. Common mixing equipment includes static mixers and vacuum tanks, etc.
Vacuum pump: used to remove bubbles from liquid silicone to ensure that the surface of the molded product is smooth and flawless.
Mixing container and stirring rod: containers and tools used to mix liquid silicone to ensure uniform mixing.
Mold preparation
Silicone Injection Mold: The mold is the carrier for liquid silicone injection molding. Its design and manufacturing must consider factors such as the fluidity of silicone, shrinkage after solidification, and the shape, size and wall thickness of the product. The precision and durability of the mold have a direct impact on the quality of the final product. Z.S.R have 12 experienced engineer will consider your molded LSR products structure and design your silicone injection mold with the correct parting line and gate. Then Z.S.R team will make your precision injection tooling in our one roof mold workshop.
Injection molding machine: The injection molding machine is the core equipment for liquid silicone injection molding, which is used to inject the mixed liquid silicone into the mold. Common types of injection molding machines include vertical injection molding machines and horizontal injection molding machines. Vertical injection molding machines are suitable for small-batch production and automatic molding of complex products, while horizontal injection molding machines are suitable for large-scale production, especially in the production of products that require high precision and smooth surfaces. Such as silicone baby nipple, baby pacifier or silicone medical products. The mold needs to be preheated to 170~200℃, and the liquid silicone is injected into the mold through the injection molding machine. The injection pressure and temperature need to be precisely controlled.
Curing: Liquid silicone undergoes a curing reaction at high temperature, and the catalyst accelerates the curing process.
Demolding and post-processing: The cured LSR silicone placemats needs to be demolded from the mold, and some products may also require post-curing treatment, cleaning and removal of impurities.
Quality control: Products must undergo strict quality inspections, including tests on size, hardness, transparency and elasticity.
Packaging and transportation: Products that pass quality inspections will be cleanly packaged and shipped to the location specified by the customer.
Z.S.R own 7 sets LSR injection molding machine to put your LSR silicone molds on mass production.
Z.S.R one day mass production capability for 10000-69999/pcs silicone molds according to the structure and size with the 7 sets molding machines. Liquid injection molding is very friendly to silicone products with high precision, high requirements and large-scale production to ensure product consistency, and is the most suitable choice.
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Silicone Dripping dispensing molding
Multi-Color Dripping Molding
Need prepare silicone as the main material for dispensing molding, usually liquid silicone (LSR) and solid silicone, color paste, vulcanizer, and also need silicone vacuum machine and automatic dispensing machine. As this kind of molding have two kind of molding process. We also call them co-injection molding. Mixed L.S.R material dripping from the automatic dispensing machine first, then heat and curing. Put the solid silicone rubber material on and close the molds put them silicone vacuum machine Vulcanization molding.
L.S.R Material prepared
Choose the appropriate liquid silicone type based on a comprehensive assessment of the product’s purpose, properties, shape, etc. For example, the medical industry should choose medical-grade silicone materials, and infant products generally use highly transparent food-grade liquid silicone raw materials. Prepare the appropriate color paste so that it can be mixed to achieve the final LSR molded product color that customer needed.
Solid silicone material prepared
Silicone rubber mixer: The silicone rubber material mixer is used to mix the raw materials with additives such as vulcanizer and color paste. used to add vulcanizer, masterbatch and other auxiliary materials to the raw materials, and refine the raw rubber into usable raw rubber. Z.S.R have 2 Silicone rubber mixer workshop and machine to mixed the material for your silicone mats.
The silicone dripping Molding process cost is higher than compression molding and LSR molding with manufacturing colorful silicone products.
It enables the combination of two silicone place mats material, solid silicone rubber and liquid silicone rubber, into a single product stream and can get the multi-color and 3D effect silicone placemats without any printed.
Mixing equipment: It is used to mix the liquid silicone of components A and B to ensure accurate proportions and uniform mixing. Common mixing equipment includes static mixers and vacuum tanks, etc.
Vacuum pump: used to remove bubbles from liquid silicone to ensure that the surface of the molded product is smooth and flawless.
Mixing container and stirring rod: containers and tools used to mix liquid silicone to ensure uniform mixing.
Silicone Rubber cutter: cuts the refined silicone placematerial into the required size and weight for making products. Z.S.R have 2 silicone rubber cutting machine to cut the material for your silicone placemats.
Electronic scale: Weight the cutted silicone rubber mixed material to ensure that the product is within the error range. We have more than 60 Electronic scales for each silicone compression molding machine.
Mold preparation
Mold: The mold is a key component of drop molding, usually made of aluminum mold, brass mold, electroplating or silicone mold. The design and production of the mold have an important impact on the quality and appearance of the product. The Z.S.R team has rich experience in making silicone drop molding molds, from Bing Dwen Dwen colorful ribbons to Disney characters, they can be perfectly reproduced.
Drop molding machine: This is the core equipment for silicone drop molding. It is mainly used to move the dispensing needle of LSR material that has been vacuum scheduled to the specified position of the drop molding mold, and control the amount of dispensing by controlling the time of extruding the paste resin and the speed of the needle moving. The drop molding machine is mainly composed of two parts: the control system and the machine structure. Commonly used control systems include LOGOSHOP, CRS-Dript Mold, etc.Adjust the glue dispensing speed, glue dispensing position and glue dispensing thickness of the glue dispenser according to the requirements of the product. Ensure the normal operation and glue dispensing effect of the glue dispenser. After debugging, conduct a trial run to ensure that the glue dispenser can work stably and accurately.
Molding stage: Place the mold under the glue dispenser, control the glue dispensing position and speed of the glue dispenser, and accurately drip the silicone mixture onto the mold. According to the needs of the product, glue can be dispensed multiple times until the required thickness and shape are achieved.
Heating equipment for silicone curing: During the drop molding process, heating is required to make LSR resin react chemically and become solid. Therefore, heating equipment is essential. Place the glued product in a constant temperature area to cure the silicone in few minutes.
Second Molding stage: Put the cutted mixed solid silicone rubber material on the curred LSR, then closed the mold and put the mold to hydraulic compress molding machine (also known as the flat vulcanizer) provides the pressure, mold temperature and vulcanization time required for molding; The vulcanization temperature and pressure are adjusted according to the silicone raw material and product requirements. Z.S.R have 16 sets silicone dripping molding line to molded your multi-colored silicone products.
Cooling and demolding: After the vulcanization is completed, remove the mold from the vulcanizer, open the mold after cooling to room temperature, and take out the silicone placemat.
Post-processing: The silicone placemat is trimmed, deburred, and other treatments are performed to achieve the ideal shape and surface quality.
Z.S.R own 16 sets dripping molding line to put your multi-colored silicone molds on mass production.
Z.S.R one day mass production capability for 12000-39999/pcs silicone molds according to the structure and size with the 12 dripping molding lines. Silicone dripping molding is very friendly to silicone products with multi-colored, 3D effect, IP and cute products to ensure the products with colorful and 3D effect without post printing.
Contact Z.S.R to custom your multi-colored cute silicone molds products.
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The customization process for create your private silicone placemats
In Z.S.R, we can custom the silicone placemats shape, size, color, pattern, brands, logo by silkscreen printing, full-color printing, or laser engraving for your silicone products, if you would like to custom your brands silicone placemats contact Z.S.R.
Customizable Content:
Appearance (shape, color): The silicone placemats shape can be round, square or creative shape by developing the new tooling. The color can be white, blue, black or use the pantone book number to customized. You also can get mixed color, marble color or double colored, multi-colored appearance.
Material properties: You can customization the material with HTV material or LSR material. The hardness you can choice from 5-80 shore A, Translucent to highly transparent, Safety level from Food Grade to Medical grade, tensile properties from ordinary to high level)
Mold type: Steel, Copper or Al
Molding method：LSR Injection molding, HTV compression molding, dripping molding
Labeling: Logo on the tooling and get the logo products. We also can Screen Printing，Laser Engraving，Heat Transfer Printing your logo on the silicone placemats already.
Packaging: zip bag, back card PET box, color box
Shipping method: DHL, FedEx, Air shipping or Sea shipping
How to create your silicone placemats brand or start your silicone placemats business?
1. Choose the design and style of the silicone molded products that you want to customize from Z.S.R’s existing designs. Or Starting with your new product idea to create your molded products, our engineers can proceed with the CAD/Stp/Step/X-T drawings just based on your sketches.
Our design and manufacturing engineers will work with your team to ensure designs meet processing requirements and can be produced consistently and cost-effectively. For your ODM or OBM project, we can sign an NDA non-disclosure agreement with you. It wards off any copycats that plagiarize your designs.
Design 3D structure of the silicone placemat according to your idea.
2. Z.S.R will make the prototype tooling to get the prototype to let you confirm. If all go through, we will make the mass production tooling for you and remake the samples for get your approved confirmation samples.Make the silicone placemat tooling according to the silicone placemat 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.
Z.S.R International Group (HONG KONG) CO., LIMITED in-house tool shop consists 6 sets of advanced CNC machining centers and 3 sets of EDM spark machines for tooling; So, we can make most of the silicone tooling and repair the silicone tooling in our factory to catch up your time needed.
3. Prepare the silicone placemat raw material: Raw silicone material are the key to silicone placemat’s products. Usually, silicone placemats meet certain environmental protection standards, so silicone placemat material 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 placemat needed. Cutting the mixed silicone placemat material in the correct weight.
4. Feeding the prepared silicone mixed silicone placematerial on-Feeding the silicone placemat material no matter the Liquid silicone rubber or solid silicone rubber in to the mold.
5. Curing the silicone placemat: The silicone placemats material is feeding into the mold after mixing, and the silicone placemats 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 silicone placematter the silicone placemat was made by: Compression molding or silicone dripping molding or LSR molding.
6. Demolding: After the curing is completed, take the silicone placemat product out of the mold.
7.QC the silicone placemat: Quality inspection: Visually inspect the molded silicone placemat to see if there is lack of silicone placemat material, uncooked Ness, or impurities.
8. Post-processing: Carry out the silicone placemat 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 placemats have a certain smell is that they have not been subjected to Secondary vulcanization baking, and the catalyst of the raw silicone placemats material 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 placemat may do not need this process.
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10. LOGO or Pattern printing on the silicone placemats if needed: screen printing or laser engraving. Most of time, we put the silicone placemat logo on the silicone tooling directly. Check the products branding service to know more.
11. Final Quality control and testing: After all the silicone placemat making process finished, we will arrange the final QC for the silicone placemats before the delivery.
12. Package and Warehouse: Z.S,R 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 Z.S.R, we manufacture the silicone placemat according to the client’s design and idea. We try our best to deliver the quality silicone placemat to our customer.
How much of the silicone placemat？
From 0.9D-9.99USD/pcs depend on the design and structure and package.
In Z.S.R, we custom the silicone placemat (https://consumersiliconeproducts.com/custom-silicone-mat) shape, size, color, pattern and brands for your own silicone placemat, if you would like to custom your brands silicone placemat, contact Z.S.R.
Notice
When you buy the silicone placemat, should pay attention to:
- Material and Certification: The silicone placemat should meet your needs and is non-toxic and environmentally friendly to ensure safe use. lead, PVC-, and phthalates-free. Check whether the silicone placemat product has a safety test certificate to ensure that it meets the relevant food safety standards. In China, silicone placemat products can be checked for compliance with the limit requirements of GB 4806.11-2016 “National Food Safety Standard Food Contact material and Products”, while foreign products should be checked for US FDA certification, CPSIA certification or EU LFGB certification, etc. Food-grade silicone is preferred, IN USA -FDA Approved -silicone placemat. The silicone placemat should be 100% food-grade silicone material to ensure safety. Ensuring that it complies with FDA and LFGB standards. Avoid choosing silicone placemat made of ordinary plastics because they may release harmful substances.
- Feel and appearance: good silicone placemats have a smooth feel, uniform color, and no impurities on the surface. Poor ones have a sticky feel, a rough surface, different shades of color, and even impurities.
- Safety: Avoid choosing imitation liquid silicone placemats containing harmful sulfides, as they may contain harmful substances and affect health.
- Brands and channels: Prefer well-known brands to ensure quality, purchase through formal channels, and avoid buying counterfeit and shoddy products.
- Price and cost-effectiveness: Prices range from a few yuan to hundreds of yuan. Cheap products may turn yellow, feel bad, or easily get hairy. You get what you pay for, choose the product that suits you.
- Functional requirements: Choose silicone placemats with anti-fingerprint, dustproof, antibacterial and other functions according to personal needs.
When you would like to buy the silicone placemat, you should comprehensively consider factors such as material, safety, brand, Function, and size to ensure a safe.
Conclusion
No matter you would like to create the silicone placemat with your logo or design for sales, promotional or events. Our high-quality customize silicone placemats are perfect for branding, souvenir, corporate gifts.
Z.S.R. customized branded silicone placemat with added your logo, design pattern, text may be your good choices.
In Z.S.R, all the steps from raw silicone placemats material selection to molding, curing, and quality control, each step plays a vital role in creating your silicone placemat that meet safety standards and perform well in their intended applications.
Contact Z.S.R to brand your own silicone placemat by contract manufacturing.
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About Author: Z.S.R International Group
Z.S.R International Group(Hong Kong) co., Limited, is a one-stop supplier for molded silicone products and silicone products molding solution provider in the consumer products field. We offer OEM services from silicone product design to Silicone products contract manufacturing. We have the capability for custom silicone tooling, LSR(Liquid silicone Rubber) molded silicone products, solid silicone molded products, molded silicone multi-colored products. We also can custom molded silicone, custom molded LSR, custom molded dripping injection dispensing(co-injection) silicone multi-colored products.
