
MATERIALS FOR
Food Contact Applications
From soft-touch grips that enhance the comfort of tools and personal care items, to household solutions that keep food fresh - our materials play a vital role in everyday products that improve our well-being and daily life. Choose from hundreds of ready-to-use options, or let us customize solutions tailored to your specific needs.
What are you making?
Choose from our proven portfolio or ask us to create a material with your specific performance requirements.
From kitchen tool handle grips to beverage tubing, food storage seals, and skin contact products -- we’re here to help bring your ideas to life. Compounds for food contact applications are made with ingredients sanctioned by standards in the US and in the EU, with NSF-recognized options available. Choose from PVC, TPE, and EVA compounds! They’re easy to process, simple to color in bold, bright hues, and ready to meet everyday performance needs. Pick from ready-to-use materials or let’s create something custom together.
Formulated for reliability. Custom-fit to your application.
Reliable compounds, tailored to your food-contact products. Whether it’s soft-touch grips, low-odor beverage tubing, or industrial face masks, our materials are customized to meet your exact performance, processing, and regulatory needs. Explore how our compounds help bring your product ideas to life.

Freshness & durability that lasts.​
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From airtight food seals to flexible drinking water hoses, these materials combine freshness protection, everyday durability, and clean-taste performance—whether you're in the kitchen or out on the road.
Food storage container seals, kitchen items, drinking water hoses for campers and marine.

Compound and Additive Portfolio
At Alphagary, we offer an extensive compound portfolio packed with options for design engineers! Choose from trusted PVC compounds, including NSF-approved grades, as well as TPE compounds and EVA compounds.. Materials are formulated with food-grade ingredients, so you can design with confidence—whether you’re focused on aesthetics, comfort, or usability.
The brand names ALPHAKLEEN, ALPHAMED, ALPHASEAL, EVOPRENE, MEXIFLEX, and VINASTAB are trademarks of Alphagary/Mexichem.
Brand Names
Our portfolio of proven food-contact compounds brings together trusted brand names that reflect decades of performance, safety, and innovation.
As our offerings have expanded through continuous innovation and strategic acquisitions, we’ve intentionally preserved heritage brand names in areas of overlap—ensuring seamless continuity for customers with long-standing product approvals.
These names carry a legacy of quality and consistency that manufacturers rely on, backed by our deep expertise in material science and a strong commitment to advancing solutions for food-contact applications.

Materials listed with NSF
If the device you're building needs NSF approval, we can help. Several Alphagary compounds have been tested to NSF standards and received approval:
NSF/ANSI 51: food equipment materials
NSF/ANSI 61: drinking water system components - health effects
NSF/ANSI 14: plastic piping system components and related materials
Search under Mexichem or Sylvin