Collagen Casing
Collagen Casing is a tubular sausage casing manufactured from purified bovine corium, the dense middle layer of beef hide that is rich in type I collagen fibres.
The casing divides into two main families. Edible collagen casings are thin-walled and tender enough to be consumed with the cooked sausage. Inedible collagen casings are thicker, often shirred and reinforced, and are stripped from the product after cooking and smoking.
We source bulk Collagen Casing from top China manufacturers for our partners. The manufacturers are in Shandong. A smaller requirement can ship in a combined container with other ingredients.
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- Packaging
- 25 kg kraft paper bag with PE inner liner
- Function
- Protein
- ISO 9001
- HACCP
- Halal
- Kosher
Specifications
| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Appearance | Uniform in size and shape, translucent with a smooth surface. |
| Purity (Food Grade) | ≥ 90% |
| Purity (Feed Grade) | ≥ 85% |
| Moisture/Loss on Drying | ≤ 15% |
| pH | 6.0 - 7.5 |
| Ash | ≤ 5% |
| Lead | ≤ 0.5 mg/kg |
| Arsenic | ≤ 0.5 mg/kg |
| Total Plate Count | ≤ 1000 cfu/g |
| Yeast & Mold | ≤ 100 cfu/g |
Common Markets Grades
Edible grades are sized by caliber, expressed in millimeters of stuffed diameter, with common sizes ranging from 17 mm for snack sticks and breakfast links up to 32 mm for fresh dinner sausages and frankfurters.
Inedible grades cover larger calibers, typically 40 mm and above, and are used as substitutes for natural beef middles and fibrous casings in salami, summer sausage, and large-format cooked products.
Three formats cover the trade: shirred strands ready for stuffing on automatic equipment, flat rolls for manual operations, and pre-tied loops and links for specialty applications.
Colour, smoke permeability, and shrink performance are tuned by plasticizer and cross-linking chemistry. Caramel-tinted, smoke-permeable, and easy-peel grades each cover a defined production category.
Applications
- Fresh dinner sausages, bratwurst, and Italian sausage in retail and food-service portions
- Frankfurters, hot dogs, and wieners on high-speed cook-and-peel lines
- Breakfast links and snack sticks in small calibers for grab-and-go formats
- Smoked and semi-dry sausages where uniform smoke uptake is critical
- Dry-cured salami and summer sausage in inedible calibers
- Cooked and smoked deli meats requiring stable diameter and clean release
- Co-extrusion lines that apply liquid collagen directly to the meat batter
- Halal and Kosher sausage lines using species-certified collagen
- Pet-treat and dog-chew formats where collagen tubing carries flavoured fillings
- Plant-based sausage analogs that use collagen casing for traditional bite and snap
Brands Using Collagen Casing
Widely-distributed consumer products that list Collagen Casing on the ingredient label.
- DevroSelect Collagen Sausage Casings ↗Devro's Select range delivers a new-generation edible collagen sausage casing engineered to mimic the bite and appearance of natural gut casings.Label verified 2026-05-24
- DevroFrixo Collagen Casing ↗Durable edible collagen casing built for robust filling and superior frying and grilling performance in fresh sausage production.Label verified 2026-05-24
- ViscofanEdible Collagen Casings ↗Viscofan's small-calibre edible collagen casings are used worldwide for fresh sausages, bratwurst and breakfast links.Label verified 2026-05-24
- ViscofanLarge Caliber Collagen Casings ↗Seamless large-calibre collagen casings produced for salami, bierwurst, pre-cooked, fried and dry-cured sausage applications.Label verified 2026-05-24
- Nitta GelatinSuperFry PLUS Collagen Sausage Casings ↗Edible beef collagen casing engineered for high tensile strength and uniform diameter, suitable for fresh, smoked and dry-cured sausages.Label verified 2026-05-24
Brand names, product names and logos are the property of their owners. They appear here as published evidence that the ingredient is used, taken from the brand's own label or website. Their appearance is not an endorsement, and it does not mean the brand buys from us or from any manufacturer listed on this site.
China Manufacturers of Collagen Casing
Top Collagen Casing manufacturers in China.
Shandong Crown Collagen Casing Co., Ltd.3 ingredients in the directory
Shandong Haiaos Biotechnology Co., Ltd.1 ingredient in the directory
Company names and logos are the property of the manufacturers themselves. They are listed here because our own directory records them as producing this ingredient. A listing is not an endorsement by them, and we do not represent them or speak on their behalf.
How We Help Source Collagen Casing
Direct Factory Sourcing
We run the whole process: selecting the manufacturer from the top Chinese food ingredient producers, negotiating the price, verifying quality, and coordinating the logistics. You deal with us instead of with several factories at once.
Original Packaging and Documents from the Manufacturer
The manufacturer sends your Collagen Casing out of its own factory in the original packing, through to your destination port. The COA, COO, MSDS, TDS and any certifications reach you from the manufacturer as well.
Free Samples and Lead Time
We send 100 to 500 g free for your own laboratory to test and you cover only the courier, usually within 2 to 3 working days. ETD is usually within 7 to 15 days once the order is confirmed, and we check that date against the factory's own manufacturing schedule before we give it to you.
Combined Shipment
We can load Collagen Casing together with other ingredients such as Collagen Peptide, Soy Protein Isolate and Fish Collagen Peptide into one 20' FCL. If your quantity is small, we can also ship LCL.
Regulatory Status
Collagen casing is an accepted food-contact and food-component material in major regulated markets. In the United States FDA food-additive practice recognises it for casing applications, and USDA-FSIS oversees it in meat-processing facilities.
In the European Union, casings made from animal collagen fall under the rules governing products of animal origin, with raw-material traceability and TSE controls applied to bovine sources.
Casings sold as edible are subject to compositional and migration controls. Inedible casings carry labelling requirements that distinguish them from edible products at the consumer level.
Halal and Kosher certifications exist for casings produced from species-segregated raw material and dedicated processing lines.
Manufacturing Process
Production starts with selection of the corium layer of beef hide, separated from the grain and flesh sides during the hide-splitting step at a tannery or dedicated collagen plant.
The corium is cleaned, defatted, and subjected to controlled alkaline and acidic treatments to remove non-collagen proteins and to swell the fibres. The swollen material is mechanically ground into a smooth collagen dough.
This dough is mixed with plasticizers, typically glycerol, and with cellulose fibres in inedible grades to add wet strength. The blend is extruded through annular dies into thin-walled tubes.
The wet tubes pass through a coagulation bath that precipitates the collagen and a series of conditioning baths that adjust pH and cross-linking. Smoke-permeability and colour are set in this stage.
The tubes are then dried under controlled tension, cut, shirred onto sticks, and packaged. Inedible grades may receive an additional reinforcement step before shirring.
