Starch

Forest Resources and Environment Marketing Others / Raw materials for paper manufacturing

The Oji Group deals in starch for food, which is a functional food material, and starch for industrial use, which is used in the manufacturing of paper and corrugated containers and that has other applications.

Starch for food

We offer a lineup of diverse products whose quality is strictly controlled. We think together with customers and provide excellent technical services to help them pave the way forward, guided by our corporate policy: We do not sell products but develop them jointly with customers.

We are ready to provide starch with a wide array of features, including quality maintenance, viscosity stability, texture improvement and cold water solubility. These types of starch are used in a wide variety of food products, such as sauces, dressings, baked goods, Japanese and Western confectionery, processed egg products, processed meat and fish products, frozen and chilled foods such as noodles and boil-in-the-bag meals.

Starch for food

Starch for industrial use

Our products are used mainly for paper manufacturing and corrugated containers.

(1) Products for paper manufacturing:
Cationic starch (for internal sizing)
Oxidized starch (for size press and coating binders)
Starch phosphate (for spraying between paperboard layers/for coating materials)

(2) Products for corrugated container:
Glue with low-temperature serviceability (fuel cost reduction and quality improvement)
Non-formalin glue (water-resistant adhesive that does not contain formalin)
Agent for improving bonding and additive for increasing bonding speed (reduction of fuel and operation time)
Premix glue (significant reduction of time taken to make glue)

(3) Products for fly ash:
Fixative for heavy metals contained in incinerated ash

Starch for industrial use