SCA develops new sizing additive to produce water resistant paper

15 September 2018

The innovation concerns a sizing additive that SCA has developed to improve the production of water resistant, hydrophobic, paper. The additive can be produced in a green sustainable manner, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

The new sizing additive can completely replace the addition of commercial sizing agents in the paper production. The resulting paper exhibit improved water resistance and UV-light stability.

Since the depolymerized lignin can be produced from byproducts from a pulp mill the resulting sizing additive is sustainable and cost effective.

The product comprises a blend of depolymerized lignin and cationic polysaccharide which is added to a lignocellulosic pulp suspension containing aluminum salt at the wet end of the paper manufacturing process. The development work has been a collaboration between SCA R&D Centre and the Kraftliner business.

Based in Sweden, SCA produces solid-wood products, pulp, kraftliner, publication papers and renewable energy.

 

Source: lesprom.com