Starches

Cargill offers a wide range of starch products derived from corn, potato and wheat. The properties of these starch products are determined both by their botanical origin and further 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

Applications

Starches are a versatile input used in many industries including adhesive and binding applications, paper making, corrugating, construction, paints and coatings, textiles and oilfield applications. A specific native, modified or pregelatinized starch is selected depending on application, conditions and properties desired. Native starches are also used as a carbon source in specialty fermentation processes and as a processing aid in formulating fermentation products.

Products

• C☆Bond™
• C☆iBond™
• C☆Coat™
• C☆iCoat™
• C☆Film™
• C☆iFilm™
• C☆Flex™
• C☆Gel™
• C☆Gum™
• C☆iGum™
• C☆Plus™