Tapioca starch Utility

Cassava starch is applied in many manufacturing industries such as: Glue, plywood, textiles, paper industry, food industry, MSG... Cassava chips and pellets are used in animal feed and wine production.

Glue: Tapioca starch is a very important ingredient in creating glue. Tapioca starch based dextrates are excellent adhesives and are used in many applications including pre-glued papers, tapes, labels, stamps and envelopes.

Plywood: Tapioca starch is used as an adhesive, so when producing glue, it is added to create stickiness for the glue to bind plywood and hard wood. In addition, it is also known for its low price, so it saves a lot of glue making costs, and because of its smoothing properties, glues using cassava starch will not leave precipitate marks when mixed to create glue. . The quality of plywood depends greatly on the glue used.

Paper industry: In paper production technology, cassava starch is considered an important and essential raw material to create paper, used in many types of paper such as cardboard, printing paper, newspaper, tissue paper,... Helps increase paper's durability, folding resistance, waterproofing.....Improves paper's appearance and durability. Used for corrugated paper, laminated paper and cardboard boxes.

- Packaging paper: Tapioca starch is used as a coagulant and holding aid, as an adhesive, as a surface sizer, as an adhesive for paper layers, creating a sturdy, flexible sheet of paper. High elasticity, good bearing capacity as well as disintegration resistance of paper,...

 - Printing paper: Tapioca starch is used as a coating to make printing paper more water-resistant and it is also used as a filler to increase the durability of paper, reduce the size of the fibers in the paper, making produces stronger, more flexible and anti-yellowing paper with better printing properties

- Newspaper: Tapioca starch helps make paper less brittle and more flexible so it can be folded and unfolded without breaking, allowing the paper to be recyclable, reducing production costs and making the paper more durable. 

- Paper towels: The inclusion of tapioca starch in the paper production process helps provide greater durability and softness compared to conventional paper towels, it also has less lint and is more absorbent, creating a Environmentally friendly and easily degradable product.