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For stronger, lighter cartons and containerboard, seek out more innovation in your additives, coatings and adhesives. At Ingredion, that's what we deliver — and we'll show you the way to achieve improved productivity and cost-effectiveness for your unique strength, printability and barrier requirements. From robust wet-end solutions that reduce basis weight and improve drainage and retention to smarter binder and surface solutions delivering greater performance and value, we bring deep understanding of packaging and starch chemistry to meet your challenges.

Boost productivity with wet-end/dry-end solutions

Our linerboard production solutions help you replace synthetics, deliver the dry strength development, increase machine speed and improve retention you need to be most productive.

Enhance finished product performance and accomplish your dry-end goals

With OPTIBOND®/OPTIPRO® wet-end starches and TOPCAT®/REDIPRO® high-charged cationic ready-for-use natural polymers, plus surface starch technology when needed with PENFORD GUM® modified starches and PENFILM® surface binders, we can help you:

Coatings deliver strength and printability

For optimal binding strength plus quality appearance and printability, look to operator-friendly, no-VOC PEN-COTE® L and PEN-COTE® D binder solutions. Outperforming other naturally derived binders, the solutions enable solids content up to 50% to help cut the need for viscoscity modifiers. Available both as ready-for-use liquids and completely soluble powders to easily integrate into your processes.

Bond with eco-friendly adhesives

Reduce your carbon footprint with environmentally friendly, natural and renewable PENLAM® adhesives which deliver high binding strength, superior runnability, easy cleanup and biodegradability with no VOCs. We'll help you customize your formulation to meet your manufacturing needs for percent of solids, viscosity and molecular weight.

Wet-end product (ingredient) family
Description
Application

CATO®/PENCAT®

modified starches

Cationic and amphoteric mill-cooked starches
Strength, retention and drainage development in virgin and low recycle content furnish papermaking systems
OPTIBOND® modified starches
Net cationic enhanced molecular weight mill-cooked starches
Paper/board machine systems utilizing microparticle retention systems for enhanced retention/drainage performance and strength development
OPTIPRO® modified starches
High cationically charged mill-cooked starches
Strength, retention and drainage development in high recycle content furnish and high cationic charge demand papermaking systems
REDIPRO® natural polymers
Moderately-charged cationic, ready-for-use polymeric blends
Designed for paper/board mills without a dry starch handling/cooking system, but current grade structure or new grade development require increased internal strength development and improved retention/drainage performance. Especially useful in high recycle content furnishes
TOPCAT® cationic additives
High-charged cationic, ready-for-use natural polymers
Designed for paper/board mills without a dry starch handling/cooking system, but current grade structure or new grade development require increased internal strength development and improved retention/drainage performance. Especially useful in high anionic trash containing machine systems for charge neutralization and wet-end additive efficiency
Dry-end product (ingredient) family
Description
Application

CORN PRODUCTS®

pearl starches

Unmodified/ "native" starch
For use in locations have in-mill "thinning" systems (i.e. enzyme or ammonium persulfate)
DOUGLAS® modified starches
Oxidized, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
Cost competitive mill locations producing commodity grades that need a moderate level of surface strength and printability
FILMKOTE® modified starches
Superior film forming, thixotropic, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
Provides superior barrier performance compared to traditional surface starch products for use in paper grades requiring a level of oil and grease resistance; helping to eliminate or reduce fluorochemicals grades requiring a high level of porosity development
KOFILM® modified starches
Acetylated viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
Suitable where high surface strength is important for use in printing and writing grades or strength development in board grades, where product stability and consistent viscosity control are required
PENFORD GUM® modified starches
Hydroxyethylated, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
Suitable where high surface strength is important for use in printing and writing grades or strength development in board grades, where starch stability and consistent viscosity control are required. Appropriate for use in all size press and/ or waterbox applications

StacKOTE™/PENFILM ®

modified starches

Acid-thinned waxy maize mill-cooked starches
Superior runnability in grades requiring high surface strength with enhanced printability especially in mill locations having hard water
REDIFILM™ liquid natural polymers
Ready-for-use natural polymers
Easy for use specialty starch product which provides barrier properties with enhanced surface strength and printability
Coating product (ingredient) family
Description
Application
FILMKOTE® modified starches
Superior film forming, thixotropic, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
Product provides thixotropic response in coating rheology, which improves runnability and performance over traditional starches in demanding coating applications. Highly effective anti-blocking agent for use in coated board formulations. Barrier starch technology useful for developing oil and grease resistance performance
PEN-COTE® L liquid coating binders
Ready-for-use liquid coating binder
Liquid coating starch suitable for use in coating formulations where the solids content of the formula limits the use of traditional starches. Provides excellent water-holding of the formulation and helps reduce binder migration. Suitable for latex replacement in paper or board applications
PEN-COTE® D coating binders
Ready-for-use dry powder coating binder
Dry "stir-in" coating binder mixes into pigment slurry without cooking. Suitable for use in coating formulations where higher solids content of the formula improves coating efficiency and drying. Superior water-holding also improves formulation performance, reducing binder migration even further with higher coating solids. Suitable for latex replacement in paper or board applications
PENFORD GUM® modified starches
Hydroxyethylated, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
Traditional coating starch, used as a co-binder with latex
Adhesive (ingredient) family
Description
Application
PENLAM® laminating adhesives
Liquid, starch-based adhesives
Paper to paper laminating applications such as mounting board, museum board, playing card, trading card grades. Cost effective alternative to synthetics in these applications

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