100% Platinum Silicone

You can only find the special, mirror-smooth surface finish at Backefix, for example – with almost every recipe, without disposable molds, without sticking and without greasing.
We have tried and perfected it for you over the years!

Yes, all Backefix silicone baking pans are food-safe and BPA-free.

Our long-standing partner producers obtain most of the raw materials for our products from the German company Wacker.
Yes, Wacker is already a large medium-sized company, but we believe we have a partner with backbone and foresight (Social Responsibility Report by Wacker).
Depending on the product, different quantities of silicone emulsions and silicone rubber are mixed (see production video at the bottom) to achieve the properties and properties of the basic raw materials that we require.
For colouring, we use special pigment-containing colour pastes, which are available in primary and secondary colours.
With the addition of these, we mix the right shade on the roller.

This varies depending on the product.
Initially, we develop all products in prototypes ourselves or with institutes from the Cologne area.
With the finished sample, we turn to long-standing partner producers for series production.
Depending on the product, these are located in China, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy or Vietnam (the rattan of the proofing baskets, for example, grows mainly in Southeast Asia).
In the medium term, we are working on carrying out most of the series production in the EU, but due to smaller production batches for some products, we do not reach the minimum quantities of larger producers.
So if you support us, we will get closer to this dream!
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Tempering is the frying in a blast oven.
This will thoroughly remove volatile and organic components from the final product so that they don’t spill over into your baked goods.
This step is skipped by many manufacturers because it is very cost- and energy-intensive.

The silicone is wetted and refined with platinum as a catalyst – now it is called platinum-silicone.
This refinement gives our baking tins their unique properties and robustness, among other things.

Silicones, known in chemistry as polydiorganosiloxanes, are similar in structure to organically modified sand (quartz grains) and thus to a natural raw material.
But silicones present themselves as a modern synthetic product that is obtained from the basic raw material, quartz sand.
Their wide range of services is based on the chemical structure and the numerous possibilities for modifying it.
It is precisely these properties that we make use of in our baking tins.
This gives us every opportunity to mix and shape silicones with tailor-made, fascinating and constantly new material properties.

Before we bore you with a chemistry and history lecture, we would like to share a short educational film with you that summarizes the connections of silicone production well:  It all starts with (quartz) sand Sand is considered the basic raw material for silicone.
In particular, the silicon required for silicone production is obtained from quartz in the form of quartz sand or quartz gravel.
The quartz gravel is liquefied in the electric melting furnace and mixed with carbon, which removes the bound oxygen from the silicon dioxide present in the quartz and forms carbon monoxide.
What remains is the liquid silicon metal, which forms a solid rock when cooled.
It is then important to purify the raw silicon by refining it and process it into elemental silicon.
For this purpose, oxygen is blown in to completely remove unwanted elements such as lead, chromium or nickel.
These metals would severely impair the subsequent steps (especially the Müller-Rochow synthesis). From silicon to silanes to silicon In 1940, two professors (Müller and Rochow) found for the first time a way to convert solid silicon with the gas methyl chloride to liquid methylchlorosilanes (process: Müller-Rochow synthesis).
With these silanes, the starting materials and the basic building block for the production of silicones became available for the first time. – Silanes occur as colourless, water-clear and easily movable liquids – Even today, the same process is used   by all major silicone manufacturers But how do you get from methylchlorosilanes to silicone? Historically speaking, by coincidence!
The term silicone was coined by Frederic-Stanley Kipping (1863 – 1949).
He wanted to produce methyl silanols for his own purposes by hydrolysis of methylchlorosilanes.
While he expected completely different chemical compounds, the substances actually reacted to form an oily, greasy and waxy product that he called silicones. – This is how silicon finally became silicones –  As of today: hydrolysis to various silicone raw materials Today we know that silanes are processed by hydrolysis to create a basis for a wide variety of siloxanes such as silicone resins, silicone oils and rubbers.
These various siloxanes, in turn, have a wide range of applications, for example in the automotive industry, in medium and high voltage technology, in electrical engineering, in the food and human sectors, in mechanical and plant engineering and in the construction industry.
Especially for our silicone baking molds, we rely on the end product silicone rubber, which consists of long-chain polysiloxanes.
These can be converted into the elastic silicone rubber at an elevated temperature (process: vulcanization) with a wetter, such as platinum in our case, as we know it from our baking tins.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.