Board solutions
Start getting more green for your packaging
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:
- Open wider operating windows due to lower addition rate
- Save energy with the reduced drying demand
- Gain freedom to improve current products and create new ones — without having to buy new equipment or greatly alter processes
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.
Featured ingredients for containerboard (corrugated case material [CCM], paperboard, linerboard, corrugating medium, fluting)
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Cationic and amphoteric mill-cooked starches
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Strength, retention and drainage development in virgin and low recycle content furnish papermaking systems
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OPTIBOND® modified starches
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Net cationic enhanced molecular weight mill-cooked starches
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Paper/board machine systems utilizing microparticle retention systems for enhanced retention/drainage performance and strength development
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OPTIPRO® modified starches
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High cationically charged mill-cooked starches
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Strength, retention and drainage development in high recycle content furnish and high cationic charge demand papermaking systems
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REDIPRO® natural polymers
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Moderately-charged cationic, ready-for-use polymeric blends
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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
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TOPCAT® cationic additives
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High-charged cationic, ready-for-use natural polymers
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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
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Dry-end product (ingredient) family |
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CORN PRODUCTS® pearl starches
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Unmodified/ "native" starch
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For use in locations have in-mill "thinning" systems (i.e. enzyme or ammonium persulfate)
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DOUGLAS® modified starches
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Oxidized, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
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Cost competitive mill locations producing commodity grades that need a moderate level of surface strength and printability
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FILMKOTE® modified starches
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Superior film forming, thixotropic, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
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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
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KOFILM® modified starches
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Acetylated viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
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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
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PENFORD GUM® modified starches
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Hydroxyethylated, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
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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
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Acid-thinned waxy maize mill-cooked starches
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Superior runnability in grades requiring high surface strength with enhanced printability especially in mill locations having hard water
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REDIFILM™ liquid natural polymers
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Ready-for-use natural polymers
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Easy for use specialty starch product which provides barrier properties with enhanced surface strength and printability
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Coating product (ingredient) family |
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FILMKOTE® modified starches
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Superior film forming, thixotropic, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
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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
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PEN-COTE® L liquid coating binders
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Ready-for-use liquid coating binder
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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
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PEN-COTE® D coating binders
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Ready-for-use dry powder coating binder
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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
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PENFORD GUM® modified starches
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Hydroxyethylated, viscosity modified mill-cooked starches
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Traditional coating starch, used as a co-binder with latex
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Adhesive (ingredient) family |
Description |
Application |
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PENLAM® laminating adhesives
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Liquid, starch-based adhesives
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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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