Industrial Starches
Our large portfolio of industrial starches helps meet the needs of an ever-changing market. We offer more than 100 starches, including unmodified starches, cationic starches, acid-modified starches, dextrins, and water-soluble polymers.
Our Approach to Industrial Starches
“Our products are used in a wide range of paper and specialty industrial applications. These include printing and writing, tissue, containers and board liner, building products, specialty binding applications and many others. With over 100 industrial starches in our portfolio, we can help you meet your customers high standards, while benefiting from the knowledge and expertise that our Primient team offers."
- Christopher Atkinson, Director, Industrial Starch Marketing and Pricing
We work in partnership with you, getting to know your products and unique processes. This collaborative and comprehensive approach is how we’ve become one of the world’s leading industrial starch companies.
Understanding the challenges
- How can we provide the right solution for your requirements?
- How can we offer low-cost, high-quality industrial starch solutions?
- How can we reduce your water and energy use and meet regulatory obligations?
Explore Our Industrial Starches Know-How
Our industrial starches are suited to a wide range of applications, from those that demand fast-tack and strong-bond adhesions to more standard applications. Our dent and waxy corn dextrins offer a range of solubilities and viscosities making them suitable to labels, board laminating, case and carton sealing, seam pasting, tube winding, and other paper-converting operations. We understand the intricacies of working with adhesive formulations and offer a flexible and versatile portfolio of ingredients with easy shipping, storage, and handling.
Our Adhesive Starch Functionality
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Tube Winding |
Bag Making |
Carton Sealing |
Remoistenable |
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ECLIPSE® Functional Industrial Starch |
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ANCHOR® LR Acid Modified Starch |
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STADEX® Corn Dextrins |
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STA-TAPETM Waxy Acid Modified Starch |
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- ECLIPSE® Functional Industrial Starch is an acid-modified corn starch.
- ANCHOR® LR Acid Modified Corn Starch is a dent acid-modified corn starch with several uses.
- STADEX® Corn Dextrins are a group of dextrinized starch-based products used in a wide variety of industrial applications.
- ETHYLEX® Hydroxyethylated Starch can be used to improve viscosity stability in bag adhesive formulations.
- STA-TAPETM Waxy Acid Modified Starch can be used to improve viscosity stability in adhesive formulations and can be beneficial in remoistenable formulas.
- Pearl C Starch is a dent unmodified starch, ideal for use in corrugating applications.
We offer a range of specialty thickeners and binders that can partially replace expensive polyvinyl acetate and cellulosic thickeners in products such as joint compounds, tile grout, paints, and spray-textured coatings/insulation. Our deep knowledge of starches means we can offer bespoke solutions that are tailored to your manufacturing environment.
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- WALLBOARD BINDER Starch is a dual-purpose starch, acting as both a binding and adhesion agent. Its primary function is to form an adhesive bond between the paper liner and gypsum.
- STAR*POL® Starch Polymers are water soluble polymers, ideal for use in a range of building products and adhesive formulations.
- STARAMIC™ Modified Corn Starches are modified corn starches pregelatinized to be soluble in cold water. They are easily dispersible, highly substituted, nonionic water-soluble polymers designed for use at lower solid levels in wall treatments, adhesives, tile mortar, tile grout, and oil-drilling mud, among other applications.
- STADEX® Dextrins are useful in a variety of products that require a liquid or dry binder. STADEX® Dextrins range from lightly thinned to very highly hydrolyzed, offering a wide range of cold-water solubility and functionality.
We are a paper starch market leader in North America. Our starches are used in papers of all grades, to increase strength, and improve retention, drainage, and surface properties. They are utilized in both surface sizing applications at the size press and as a cost-effective binder in pigmented coating applications. Our extensive range of wet-end starches are relied upon in applications ranging from printing and writing to packaging and tissue production – get in touch to find out more.
Our Wet-end Starches
- INTERBOND™ Wet End Starches are dent cationic corn-based starches that work well in a variety of pH ranges and retention systems.
- STA-LOK® Cationic Corn Starch starches are used across the paper making industry to improve strength, internal sizing and retention.
Our Surface Treatment Starches
- CLEER-COTE™ Surface Treatment Starch is a versatile starch for use in paper manufacturing size press applications.
- ETHYLEX® Surface Treatment Starch optimizes viscosity and film strength for size press application.
- STASIZE™ Modified Starch is a premium-quality starch used in paper manufacture to support grease and oil resistance.
- TAL-FILM™ Surface Treatment Starch is an oxidized starch designed for cost effective surface sizing applications.
Our Coating Starches
- ETHYLEX® Surface Treatment Starch optimizes viscosity and binding strength in pigmented paper coating formulations.
- Instant Coating Binder starches offer cold water solubility, increased gloss versus other modified starches, capability to increase formulary solids and are compatible with fillers and other coating additives.
Technical Services
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Starch Analysis
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Starch Preparation and Applications
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Handsheet Preparation and Testing
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Deposit/Unknowns Analysis
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Paper Machine Wet-end Testing
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Coating Formulation and Preparation
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Adhesive Formulation and Preparation
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Trial equipment
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Miscellaneous
- Particle size
- Microbiology –TPC and molds/yeasts
- Microscopy