Surface Sizing Starches

Galam develops a range of oxidized corn starches for surface sizing applications, accommodating the paper industry’s rapidly changing requirements for different paper grades.

Galam offers Galsize, Galsize-STB and Galsize-CAT product lines, for improving paper quality in terms of strength, smoothness, printability and dust reduction, under different production and machine conditions. Our range of products is compatible with CMC, pigments and optical brighteners.

Benefits

• Increase surface strength
• Increase stiffness
• Improve surface smoothness
• Improve printability
• Reduce dusting
• Reduce moisture absorption
• May be used as a carrier for adding pigments and optical brighteners. 

Galam's skilled team of technologists, works in close cooperation with customers, learning their needs for quick implementation of in situ required adaptations. Upon request, a customized product can be developed according to customer requirements.

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