Collection: Desiccant

Desiccants are substances that induce or sustain a state of dryness in their vicinity. Common desiccants include silica gel, activated charcoal, calcium sulfate, and calcium chloride, which are widely used for moisture control due to their effective properties. These materials are essential in various industries to protect products from moisture damage.

What is a Desiccant?

A desiccant is a substance that absorbs water, commonly used to remove humidity that would normally degrade or even destroy products sensitive to moisture. Desiccants come in various forms, including packets, bags, and containers, making them versatile for different applications. By absorbing excess moisture, desiccants protect items from mold and mildew, which can cause significant damage. They are an essential component in food storage programs, ensuring that stored food remains dry and free from spoilage. Whether in industrial settings or household use, desiccants play a crucial role in maintaining the integrity and longevity of products.

Applications of Desiccants

Desiccants have a wide range of applications across various industries:

• Food Storage: Desiccants help maintain the moisture content of stored food, preventing spoilage and extending shelf life. By keeping the environment dry, they ensure that food products remain fresh and safe for consumption.
• Pharmaceutical: In the pharmaceutical industry, desiccants control the level of water in gas streams, ensuring the quality and efficacy of pharmaceutical products. This is crucial for maintaining the stability and effectiveness of medications.
• Petrochemical: Desiccants are used to absorb water from natural gas, ensuring the safe and efficient transportation of hydrocarbons. This prevents condensation and potential damage during the transportation process.
• Industrial: In industrial settings, desiccants control humidity and prevent condensation, protecting equipment and products from damage. This is vital for maintaining the functionality and longevity of machinery and other industrial assets.

Valdamark Sorbent Systems & Desiccant Solutions

Valdamark offers a comprehensive range of sorbent systems and desiccant solutions designed to meet the most demanding moisture control needs. Our product lineup includes silica gel desiccant packets, oxygen absorbers, and custom desiccant solutions. These products are engineered to provide effective moisture control, protecting against humidity, condensation, and mold. Whether you need to safeguard sensitive electronics, pharmaceuticals, or food products, Valdamark’s desiccant solutions ensure optimal protection and longevity.

Valdamark Sorbent Systems & Desiccant Solutions bring together a range of market leading, high performance products for the most demanding of projects in the industrial, food, medical and healthcare sectors to control moisture.

Desiccant is a moisture and humidity control solution. Moisture damage is a huge problem to industry resulting in internal degradation to goods that arrive with clients defected and not in factory condition.

A desiccant pack provides essential moisture control and vapour protection in packaging, particularly for sensitive electronic components. It prevents condensation that can occur due to humidity fluctuations during shipping.

Moisture control is not an exact science in the sense that it cannot be applied across the board with a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Often carful mitigation and understating of individual factors and variables is required to determine the influence of moisture and humidity on your valuable products.

Valdamark is the master distributor for Multisorb Filtration Group (formerly Multisorb Technologies). Multisorb desiccants are designed precisely and accompanied by robust testing & certification from our teams of leading scientists and engineers. The desiccants are designed to defend and guard against all the ways in which your products may be compromised due to moisture.

The ‘value equation’ that surrounds these products is quite compelling, helping you to preserve the efficiency and shelf life of your product whilst protection you from defects, recalls, malfunctions and ultimately lost sales/damage to your brand.

Valdamark stock a wide range of desiccant bags, packs, crystals and cans that are all expertly developed to protect your valuable products during manufacture, transport or storage.

Stripax® and Minipax® Desiccant Packs

 Products like Stripax® and Minipax® are very much tailored to the needs of the medical, healthcare and pharmaceutical spaces. These robust Tvvek® coated products are chemically inert and pose no risk of contamination to your products. Supported by a Type III Drug Master File only 21 CFR compliant materials are used in the manufacturing process. This makes these products highly suited for use in sterile and medical device packaging systems.

When dealing with a compact or limited space consider the unique MultiForm CSF® range of pre-formed, pressed sorbents. These innovative products contains nearly twice the moisture absorption capacity of loose fill desiccants.

Made using only FDA approved, pharmaceutical grade materials MultiForm CSF can be tailored to fit exactly around your product. CSF products can be further enhanced with the addition of IntelliSorb™ Moisture Management Formulations for optimal performance.

Often where industrial packaging is concerned the key performance requirement for the Desiccant is that of corrosion control and prevention.

Natrasorb® Silica Gel

Natrasorb® Desiccant bags achieve military grade absorption protecting sensitive goods from the usual corrosion culprits these high performance desiccants are all approved to MIL-D-3464E.

When the desiccant is saturated, it can no longer absorb moisture, highlighting the importance of monitoring the desiccant's capacity.

In addition to Multisorb’s ‘main line’ products a significant proportion of the business still resides in bespoke sorbent formulations and their methods of delivery.

Where enhanced, long term metal corrosion control is required Valdamark is also the master distributor for Cortec Corporation and their renowned VpCI® (Vapour Phase Corrosion Inhibitor) products.