Antiscalants and Dispersants
Formation of mineral scales is a common problem in industrial processes, desalination as well as sewage and waste water treatment facilities. Antiscalants are substances preventing crystallization mineral salts (scale) from forming in e.g. water pipes, anaerobic digesters and dewatering trains. Our broad range of polymeric antiscalants and dispersants prevent inorganic scale and crystallization and help reduce maintenance time.
Applications for antiscalants
- Once-through and recirculating cooling water systems
- Boiler water treatment and sludge dispersion
- Membrane and thermal desalination
- Municipal wastewater treatment
- Beet and cane sugar processing
- Industrial water treatment
- Detergents and cleaner formulations
Biocides and Disinfection
Biocide is a chemical or physical agent that prevents the biological deterioration of materials and has a controlling effect on harmful organisms. Biocides are used e.g. for disinfection, preservation, sterilization, sanitization and microbial control.
Ultimate technology for wastewater disinfection. It is based on a mixture of catalyzed formic acid and hydrogen peroxide and when accurately mixed, these two components form highly efficient performic acid solution (DEX-135).
Biocide for Pulp and Paper
Bacteria are always present in the water and pulp systems of cellulose-based processes such as papermaking or molded fiber production. Uncontrolled bacteria growth in the papermaking process can have drastic negative effects on production efficiency, profitability, and end product quality and safety.
Surface attached biofilms or slimes impact machine runnability and can cause end-product defects, such as dirt spots and holes, and web breaks. Machine shutdowns for cleaning means tons of lost production and decreased profitability.
Expertise in microbial control for papermaking and molded fiber and provides innovative biocide solutions for pulp and paper processes. Our solutions focus on fresh water disinfection, long and short loop biofilm and slime control, and pulp and broke preservation.
Chemical Flocculations
Polymers are chemicals used in flocculation. Flocculation is the process of agglomerating destabilized particles into bigger flocs. In wastewater flocculation and sludge treatment, colloidal particles are flocked in order to aid their removal or to help sludge dewatering. Polymers can be used alone or together with inorganic coagulants to make flocs bigger and more resistant to shear forces.
- Biomass Balanced Polymers
- Sludge Dewatering Polymer Dosage
- Cationic Flocculants
- Anionic Flocculants
- Nonionic Flocculants
- Organic Coagulants
Coating Binders
Typically, a half of the coating cost at a paper or a board mill come from the binders that are used to bind the coating together to the base board. Unique coating binders allow paper and board manufacturers to achieve twice the binding power of standard binders.
Improving coating quality :
- Optimize coating coverage
- Improve optical properties such as opacity, gloss, and brightness
- Improve print evenness and reduce smearing
Enabling cost savings :
- Reduce or eliminate higher-cost coating pigments through improved coating coverage and optical properties
- Save on drying energy due to higher porosity in coating layer
- Reduce the use of binders while maintaining same surface strength
Defoamers for Pulp and Paper
Foam control and air removal are crucial to prevent various quality, operational, and production issues at pulp and paper mills and in molded fiber production. A complete line of defoamers to effectively control foam and entrained air in all pulp and paper processes, from pulping to coating applications and wastewater treatment.
- Water Based Deaerators
- Ester Based Defoamers and Surfactant Defoamers
- Oil-based and Extended Oil-based Defoamers
- Silicone Emulsions
- Polymeric Defoamers*
We provide a comprehensive and cost-efficient approach to foam control in paper machines and pulp mills.
Drinking Pulp Additive
Wide selection of chemicals for enhancing and optimizing the performance of pulping processes, drinking, and bleaching operations. With our deep pulp and paper chemistry expertise, we can help you increase your pulp mill’s production quality and efficiency, and provide benefits for the downstream process and the final paper, board, and tissue products.
- Drinking for all types of waste paper
- Bleaching enhancers and peroxide stabilizers
- Biodegradable chelating agents
Dry Strength Resin
Dry strength is a key quality parameter for all paper and board grades.
Combined with best-in-class application expertise, our products enable paper, board, tissue and molded fiber manufacturers to manage and optimize the dry strength properties in their end-products ensuring cost-efficiency, productivity, and machine runnability.
Strength types improved by products:
- Tensile
- Burst
- Compression (SCT, RCT, CMT, CCT)
- Stiffness
- Internal (Scott bond)
- Surface (lint or dust reduction)
Benefits from dry strength increase :
You can utilize extra strength gained from using dry strength additives in multiple ways, depending on your production targets.
1. Trade-off Strength, 2. Keep Strength
Wet Strength Resin
Wet strength technologies are critical in the manufacturing of various moisture-resistant paper, board, and tissue grades and molded fiber products. Broad range of permanent wet strength additives provide high efficiency while optimizing costs and ensuring that regulatory requirements for food safety and environment are met.
High Wet Strength Efficiency :
- Chemical savings and reduced operating costs
- Reduced level of AOX and chloro-organics in paper and effluent
- More balanced charge
- Lowered risk of foam, deposits, and felt plugging
- Improved dewatering and machine runnability
Improved Wet Strength Resin Efficiency :
- Anionic Functional Promoters
- Cationic Functional Promoters
Retention and Drainage Chemicals
Optimized retention and drainage is the key to cost-efficient papermaking. Offers in-depth application expertise and best-in-class retention and drainage chemicals to enable our customers to take full control of their wet end. Our product portfolio includes backward integrated organic and inorganic polymers, micropolymers, and quick inversion polymers, world-leading silica sol, and high-quality microparticle bentonite.
The complete portfolio enables us to improve retention and drainage performance for all paper grades, as well as for molded fiber products, increasing operation performance and profitability.
- Unique expertise in applying retention and drainage chemicals, advanced chemical injection
- Polyacrylamide based Flocculants and an integral part of our retention and drainage systems.
- Leading silica sol technology and high-quality bentonite products for retention and drainage applications.
- Micropolymers are high charge polyacrylamide emulsions that allow for sheet consolidation in an effective way and improve retention, drainage, and deposit control.
- Quick inversion polymers are high charge cationic polyacrylamide emulsions that can be used in retention and drainage applications and as fixatives.
- Fixatives are used in combination with the various retention and drainage chemicals
Internal Sizing
Hydrophobation is crucial for all types of paper and board as well as molded fiber, to control the absorption of liquids such as ink and water and to improve other physical properties of the fiber-based materials, such as strength, dimensional stability, and coating and converting properties.
Most comprehensive portfolio of internal sizing agents to create efficient, fast, and even sizing for various paper and board grades, such as liquid packaging board, containerboards, fine paper, and printing paper and molded fiber products.
- Applied for hydrophobation of e.g. fine paper, liner, sack paper, packaging board, containerboard, and gypsum board.
- Applicable to various paper and board grades
- Applicable to various paper and board grades and molded fiber
- Efficient, fast, and even sizing
- High performance for different paper and board grades and various temperature, pH, and other wet end conditions.
Surface Sizing
Surface sizing agents enhance the surface properties of various paper and board grades. Portfolio of surface sizing products includes anionic, cationic, and amphoteric copolymer dispersions.
As surface sizing reduces the amount of internal sizing needed it helps reduce wet end complexity and improves machine runnability.
- Applicable to various paper and board grades
- Ensure good hydrophobation, convertibility, and printability
- Effective over a wide pH range
- Fully cured on-machine
- Compatible with other size press additives
- Maintain good ratio between sizing performance and cost
Drinking pulp additive
Dry strength Resin
Wet strength Resin
Retention and drainage chemicals
Internal Sizing
Surface Sizing
Tissue paper
There’s always room for improvement in any pulp line or bleaching operations. Arics Biotech offers targeted chemistry and applications know-how that can help you squeeze more efficiency and profitability out of your process. Extensive R&D and application knowledge throughout the entire papermaking process helps you also with your pulp quality and environmental performance.
Antiscalants and dispersants
Formation of mineral scales is a common problem in industrial processes, desalination as well as sewage and waste water treatment facilities. Antiscalants are substances preventing crystallized mineral salts (scale) from forming in e.g. water pipes, anaerobic digesters and dewatering trains. Our broad range of polymeric antiscalants and dispersants prevent inorganic scale and crystalization and help reduce maintenance time.Read More..
Biocides and disinfection
Biocide is a chemical or physical agent that prevents the biological deterioration of materials and has a controlling effect on harmful organisms. Biocides are used e.g. for disinfection, preservation, sterilization, sanitization and microbial control.
Biocide for Pulp and paper
Bacteria are always present in the water and pulp systems of cellulose-based processes such as papermaking or molded fiber production. Uncontrolled bacteria growth in the papermaking process can have drastic negative effects on production efficiency, profitability, and end product quality and safety.
Chemical flocculations
Polymers are chemicals used in flocculation. Flocculation is the process of agglomerating destabilized particles into bigger flocs. In wastewater flocculation and sludge treatment, colloidal particles are flocked in order to aid their removal or to help sludge dewatering. Polymers can be used alone or together with inorganic coagulants to make flocs bigger and more resistant to shear forces.
Coating Binders
Typically, a half of the coating cost at a paper or a board mill come from the binders that are used to bind the coating together to the base board. Arcis unique coating binders allow paper and board manufacturers to achieve twice the binding power of standard binders.
Defoamers for Pulp and paper
Foam control and air removal are crucial to prevent various quality, operational, and production issues at pulp and paper mills and in molded fiber production. Arcis has a complete line of defoamers to effectively control foam and entrained air in all pulp and paper processes, from pulping to coating applications and wastewater treatment.
Drinking pulp additive
Wide selection of chemicals for enhancing and optimizing the performance of pulping processes, drinking, and bleaching operations. With our deep pulp and paper chemistry expertise, we can help you increase your pulp mill’s production quality and efficiency, and provide benefits for the downstream process and the final paper, board, and tissue products.
Dry strength Resin
Dry strength is a key quality parameter for all paper and board grades. Arcis broad portfolio of dry strength additives include specifically designed technologies to be used with virgin, mechanical, recycled or mixed fibers and for the production of various paper, board, and tissue grades as well as molded fiber.
Wet strength Resin
Wet strength technologies are critical in the manufacturing of various moisture-resistant paper, board, and tissue grades and molded fiber products. Arcis broad range of permanent wet strength additives provide high efficiency while optimizing costs and ensuring that regulatory requirements for food safety and environment are met.
Retention and drainage chemicals
Internal Sizing
Surface Sizing
Surface sizing agents enhance the surface properties of various paper and board grades. Arcis portfolio of surface sizing products includes anionic, cationic, and amphoteric copolymer dispersions.
Tissue paper
With our application expertise on tissue processes and a portfolio of tissue specialties, we help tissue and towel manufacturers to improve their machine and production efficiency while ensuring that product quality and properties meet desired targets.
Internal Sizing
Surface Sizing
Surface sizing agents enhance the surface properties of various paper and board grades. Arcis portfolio of surface sizing products includes anionic, cationic, and amphoteric copolymer dispersions.
