Poultry processing
Plucking fingers for defeathering machines, produced in the hardness and profile the machine and the bird size require. Wear rate, tear resistance at the root and resistance to the daily wash are what determine service life.
Agro-industry
Rubber components for food and agricultural processing equipment
Moulded and extruded elastomer parts for poultry processing, dairy, grain handling and agricultural machinery. Produced to customer drawing, in compounds formulated for what the part actually meets in service.
These parts are destroyed by the cleaning, not by the work
This is the point most material selections get wrong. A plucking finger, a pump rotor or a machine seal in a food plant spends its working hours in contact with fat, protein and mechanical load — and then, every single day, gets washed with hot caustic followed by acid, sometimes above 80 °C.
The two duties want opposite compounds. Nitrile handles animal fat and oil well and is degraded quickly by strong caustic. EPDM shrugs off caustic, acid and steam, and swells in fat. Choosing for one and ignoring the other is why parts that look correct on paper come back after three months.
Getting this right is a formulation decision, not a catalogue decision. Because we mix our own compounds, we can weight the formulation toward the duty that is actually killing the part — and adjust it again if the plant changes its cleaning regime.
Where our parts are used
Dairy and milk handling
Rotors for milk pumping, seals and gaskets for transfer and processing equipment. Fat resistance combined with tolerance of clean-in-place cycles.
Processing equipment seals
Sealing rings, bushings, gaskets and diaphragms for pumps, valves and dosing equipment across food and agricultural plants.
Handling and conveying
Rollers, scrapers, wipers, buffers and profile sections for conveying and grading equipment, where abrasion and impact drive the specification.
Agricultural machinery
Bushings, mounts, sealing components and extruded profiles for equipment working outdoors, where ozone, UV and temperature cycling matter more than chemical contact.
Development work
Many parts in this sector exist in one plant and nowhere else, often as a fix for a machine no longer supported by its manufacturer. We work from a drawing, a worn sample, or the failed part itself.
A note on food contact
Elastobras produces components to customer specification for equipment used in food and agricultural processing. We do not currently hold food-contact conformity certification, and we do not claim compliance with EC 1935/2004, FDA or equivalent frameworks.
Where a part requires certified food-contact material, tell us at the enquiry stage so that we can say plainly whether we are the right supplier for it. We would rather lose an enquiry than have a customer discover the gap during an audit.
Replacing a worn part
If a component is failing earlier than it should, send the failed part with the working conditions — temperature, media, cleaning chemistry and frequency, load, cycle rate. The failure mode usually tells us more about the right compound than the original drawing does.
Send a drawing, a sample or a failed part and we will comment on material and manufacturability before tooling is committed.