Many of Cargill’s starch products start with a variety of corn types, each with particular properties (plus variants produced through chemical and/or physical modifications). Granular native starch, when heated in an aqueous environment, gelatinizes to produce a viscous colloidal solution with high binding power. Your optimal starch is selected according to application and specific qualities desired, such as viscosifying, binding, tackifying, flow and film-forming properties, using native, pregelatinized or modified products characteristics.

Specific modifications are performed on the starches to allow them to:

• Provide viscosity without the need to cook the starch
• Allow them to be used at higher solids
• Provide greater viscosity stability
• Provide faster tack and/or quicker drying
• Improve film-forming properties
• Improve adhesion and/or binding properties

Use for:

• Resistance to moisture/humid conditions
• Drying speed
• Performance at low concentrations
• Ply-binding in bags/corrugated board
• Case and carton sealing
• Wallboard
• Panel bonding
• Bookbinding
• Can/bottle labels
• Pressure-sensitive labels