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Partner with Chemstar for the starch polymer expertise and collaborative R&D that drive superior performance and reduce costs for your adhesive product line.

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Optimizing adhesion and so much more

Our exclusive starch polymer product line and in-depth application knowledge allow us to deliver the specific attributes and targets you’re looking for, including:

ADHESION AND BONDING
Naturally adhesive, our polymers were designed to help maximize bond strength across a variety of applications.

WATER MANAGEMENT
Leverage our hydrophilic polymers to enhance your ability to manage water and optimize set times.

RHEOLOGY MODIFICATION
Infused with our expert chemistry, our starch-based polymers will help you to attain your target viscosity.

TACK AND SLIP
Chemstar solutions can facilitate quick tack or optimal slip, depending on your formulation requirements.

Core polymer applications

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WOOD GLUES

Improve water resistance and your glue’s bond strength while increasing bio-content levels.
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BILLBOARD AND WALLPAPER PASTE

Obtain a highly viscous formulation that keeps the paper on the wall while allowing users to make adjustments.
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TUBE WINDING

Achieve powerful bond strength and crush resistance that enhances product quality and usability while reducing throw-aways.
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PAPER BAGS

Bolster the strength of bag seams and bottom seals for a better user experience.
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CORRUGATION

Use our polymers to increase use of recycled materials, enhance crush strength and accelerate processing with faster setting and drying times.
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Benefits beyond the bond

Leverage our R&D expertise to realize:

BETTER RUN RATES
Devise a formula that increases your customers’ run rates with faster tack and drying.

ZERO PREP
Our ready-to-use, pre-gelatinized starches help adhesive operations avoid costly cooker use and maintenance.

LOWER COSTS
Let us show you how to improve profits by displacing costlier alternative polymers.

ENHANCED SUSTAINABILITY
Our bio-based, environmentally-friendly polymers will help you hit your sustainability goals.

Product lineup

Our portfolio of pre-gel and derivative starches, shown below, represents just some of the solutions available for adhesive customers. Let our R&D team evaluate your requirements and customize the right solution for your products.

In addition, our Paul F. Werler Innovation Center can support adhesive formula testing, and we’ll make our other cutting-edge resources available to you to get the results you need. Contact us to talk about your specific requirements.

GlucoStar® Series

These anionic starch-based polymers are cold-water soluble, high-viscosity adhesives that provide excellent adhesion and thickening properties. GlucoStar products also have good shear stability, electrolyte stability, excellent film clarity and combined tack and slip properties—all the right characteristics for wall covering, adhesive and paper-bag adhesive products.

FiberStar® Series

FiberStar polymers are cold-water soluble, low-viscosity, non-ionic polymers that are natural polysaccharides. They’re designed to enhance functional properties, including adhesion/binding, water retention, rheology and viscosity. And, FiberStar products are excellent choices for binding and adhesive applications where economics is important.

StarBond® Series

We began offering our Chemstar StarBond series to the general adhesives market after it got rave reviews from leading specialty adhesives manufacturers. StarBond provides premier water retention, workability and adhesion properties within a variety of compounds.

GlucoSol® Series

Our GlucoSol polymer series features low- and high-viscosity options that each provide lump-free mixing characteristics. GlucoSol 800 is a specialty solution tailored to the adhesives industry that is designed to enhance high-solid, low-viscosity formulas.

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