Wet strength resins are critical for achieving the desired quality targets for most tissue grades, such as towels, industrial wipes, facial tissues, hankies, and napkins. For tissue manufacturers, wet strength presents a challenge that demands balancing three critical factors: performance, regulatory compliance, and cost.
Explore how Kemira’s high-efficiency wet strength resins overcome the challenge:
- Reduce chemical and operational cost
- Lower residual levels in paper and effluent
- Increase tissue strength
- Improve machine runnability
Typically achieving target wet strength levels requires substantial resin dosages, making wet strength your most expensive chemical application. Cleaner wet strength resin generations that are crucial for regulatory compliance often come with reduced efficiency and higher prices, further increasing the cost-in-use.
Kemira has developed cost-saving and clean technologies to break the trade-off in wet-strengthened tissue and towel grades. These include high-efficiency, low-AOX Kemira FennoStrength™ wet strength resins and complementary Kemira FennoBond™ anionic and cationic functional promoters that further improve wet strength resin efficiency.
Achieve more benefits by using less wet strength resins
Learn from three industrial case studies that demonstrate how Kemira’s advanced chemistry enables significant wet strength resin reduction while maintaining – or even improving – sheet quality targets and simultaneously reducing costly operational issues like foam, deposits, and reduced dewatering. High-performance FennoStrength wet strength resins can in many cases reduce resin dosage by 10–15% and even more.
- A towel producer achieved significant resin reduction while maintaining desired sheet quality and keeping AOX levels in paper on target
- Another towel manufacturer addressed production safety issues and achieved considerable net savings
- A napkin producer simultaneously increased production and reduced energy costs, while increasing both wet and dry tensile strength
Download the article to stay ahead in the wet-strengthened tissue market with cost-effective and compliant solutions.