Paper Making Expertise

Our Application & Development Centre for Industrial Starches is a unique resource for our customers. Bridging the gap between research and the market, work at the Application & Development Centre is anchored in the realities of today’s market, while always pushing towards tomorrow.

The Centre is an outstanding combination of application expertise and process technology thatlinks our research and development facilities with our sales and marketing department.

Industrial starches application centre

Whether you require wet end trials or testing of coating colors, new methods or equipment, the Cargill Application & Development Centre for Industrial Starches offers analytical services, technology and know-how.

We can perform

• Complex chemical & rheological analysis
• Coating color characterization
• Wet end testing
• Physical testing

Our Application Centre staff are experienced in utilizing microscopy techniques and have access to advanced analytical technology such as FTIR, chemical imaging, CLSM, and AFM to analyze customer samples. We’ll help you solve your paper quality problems and enhance value from wet end, through to coating and  the finished product.

Starch preparation equipment solutions

We work with our customers to design, supply and finance turnkey starch preparation equipment comprising silo, slurry preparation system, fully automatic cooker/converter, product storage and distribution system.

Our state-of-the-art systems are compact, modular, and thus can easily be combined with your existing equipment. The level of automation provided ranges from fully automated for stand-alone operation to complete integration into the mill’s DCS.

We assist papermakers in choosing the starch preparation equipment layout best suited to their specific machine systems and end-use requirements.