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Chemistry expertise for pulping and bleaching

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Pulp production is increasingly critical in the circular economy as demand for renewable fiber-based products grows. The right chemistry partner helps you make the most of your fiber sources and run pulping and bleaching operations efficiently, profitably, and responsibly. You can overcome production bottlenecks, ensure compliance, and consistently achieve the brightness, cleanliness, and quality needed for applications from tissue and packaging to textiles.

Chemistry expertise that keeps pulp production on target

Running a successful pulping and bleaching operation requires consistent control over productivity, quality targets, and environmental performance. Our leading chemistry expertise helps you achieve all three goals.

Across pulping, bleaching, and deinking, we combine essential pulping and bleaching chemistries with fiber processing expertise, application know-how, and digital services to help you squeeze more value out of your operations. Whether you are producing chemical or mechanical pulp or specialty grades such as dissolving pulp, we help you achieve the required brightness and cleanliness targets while reducing variability and optimizing chemical consumption and operating costs.

Because we understand both pulp and paper chemistry and water management, we help you deliver pulp that performs in downstream processes while improving resource efficiency through optimized water, energy, and chemical use.

Fiber lines around the world rely on our proven solutions, responsible manufacturing, and the supply reliability that keeps operations running.

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Achieving consistent bleaching performance

Consistent bleaching performance under changing conditions is critical to pulp quality and operational efficiency. Variations in raw materials and process conditions can increase chemical consumption, create instability, and lead to off-spec pulp that impacts downstream processes.

We help you control bleaching performance across the process. By combining essential bleaching chemicals with deep application know-how and decades of experience, we support stable operations that deliver target brightness while preserving fiber strength and quality. This expertise spans chemical, mechanical, and recycled pulp, and now extends to new requirements in fiber processing, such as textile recycling.

Supporting a wide range of strategies, our portfolio includes sodium chlorate for on-site chlorine dioxide generation, hydrogen peroxide, and peracetic acid. Combined with our bleaching expertise and advanced process monitoring and control services, our solutions help optimize bleaching performance and balance brightness, fiber quality, chemical efficiency, and process stability. This enables mills to manage variability, overcome bleaching plant constraints, and consistently achieve target performance.

Maximizing process efficiency and uptime

Stable and efficient pulping and bleaching operations require active control of process disturbances across the fiber line. Variations in conditions, foam formation, and deposit build-up can disrupt production and reduce throughput, leading to efficiency losses and increased chemical consumption.

We combine our expertise in pulping and bleaching with process and functional additives to help maintain stable operating conditions and keep production running efficiently. Our end-to-end offering includes pulping additives such as chelating agents, defoamers, and deposit control solutions designed to manage disturbances such as scaling, pitch, and entrained air, alongside chemistries that stabilize bleaching conditions and help improve overall process performance.

The result is fewer disruptions, improved throughput, optimized yield, and reliable operation across the fiber line, helping pulp mills consistently run at planned capacity.

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Ensuring pulp cleanliness and quality

The purity of pulp directly affects its performance in downstream processes and end-use applications. Microbial growth and contaminants such as pitch, stickies, and metals can compromise pulp quality, create operational challenges, and increase risk of defects in the final paper, board, tissue, and other fiber-based product products.

We combine our expertise in pulping, bleaching, and fiber processing with targeted process chemistries and additives to help mills maintain clean process conditions and consistent pulp quality. Our solutions support contaminant removal in deinking, control microbial growth, and manage deposits that can affect both pulp cleanliness and process performance.

From virgin and recycled fiber to emerging applications such as textile recycling, we help ensure that pulp meets the quality requirements of its intended application. Effective control of contaminants and microbial activity helps ensure reliable downstream performance and confidence that quality targets will be met.

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Managing water efficiently and responsibly

Water plays a critical role throughout pulping and bleaching operations. As pulp mills seek to reduce freshwater consumption, increase water reuse, and stay compliant with evolving environmental requirements, effective water management becomes a key contributor to operational reliability and performance.

We help mills manage water from intake to discharge through a combination of treatment chemistries, application expertise, and digital solutions for real-time monitoring, control, and predictive optimization. Stable, high-quality process water supports efficient pulping and bleaching operations while reducing the risk of water-related production constraints, while effective wastewater treatment and discharge management keeps mills ahead of regulatory demands and helps control costs. Together, these create value at both ends of the water cycle, helping mills balance operational efficiency, treatment costs, water reuse objectives, and compliance requirements.

Chemical products and digital services for pulping and bleaching

We provide a complete portfolio of pulping and bleaching chemistries, process additives, and water treatment chemicals supported by dedicated digital solutions. With over 100 years of chemistry expertise, we help fiber lines achieve efficient, profitable, and sustainable operations.

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