Welcome to National Starch Papermaking Innovation

Five Ways National Helps Papermakers Reduce Costs and Achieve Optimal Performance

We’re focused:
National Starch Papermaking Innovation has never tried to be all things to all papermaking customers. We focus on one thing, and we do it better than anyone else: specialty starches. We take our focus one step further, applying our specialty starches primarily in the two areas where they offer the most value:

     1) At the wet-end, where they offer increased strength, development, drainage and retention options in acid, neutral or alkaline papermaking.

     2) Specialty surface applications where they improve finished paper/board printability, surface strength and oil and grease resistance applications.

Specialty starch products offer papermakers the benefits of improved runnability, reduced basis weight, increased production and differentiable surface property performance.

We’re extensive:
National offers an extensive series of specialty starch product lines to meet a wide variety of wet-end and specialty surface papermaking needs. We revolutionized paper machine wet-ends 50 years ago with the introduction of our CATO® cationic starches. Today, our family of products includes an extensive range of starch bases, innovative cationic, amphoteric, hydrophobic, viscosity modified and multi-component specialty starch formulations.

We’re experienced:
Nobody knows the papermaking additives business better than National. Our products are backed by a strong technical support team that takes a system solutions-oriented approach with every customer. We not only help increase the strength, performance and printability of end products … we help paper mills increase their operational efficiency by improving such variables as retention, drainage, additive mix, machine runability, production speed and overall throughput. The combination of our superior products, advanced technology and applications know-how makes National an invaluable resource for paper mills throughout North America and the world.

We’re environmentally sound:
All of our products are based on starch, a natural polymer. Most of our paper-grade products are approved for use under various U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations. The use of natural polymer-based additives is a proven means of reducing a paper mill’s release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and biological oxygen demand (BOD) levels. Ask our technical support team how National can help your paper mill improve your environmental impact through products, technology, reduced waste and operating efficiencies