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Pulp and Paper Solutions
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Pulp and Paper
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Dow supports customers with more than just products. We offer materials science expertise, practical problem-solving, and a collaborative approach grounded in real production needs. Our pulp and paper solutions are designed to help organizations get more from every stage of the process. The result is a partner that understands the pressure to improve performance, maintain consistency, and keep operations moving forward. Industry leaders turn to Dow for solutions that push the envelope of what’s possible.
Improve manufacturing productivity at every stage
Dow supports pulp and paper manufacturing with solutions designed for the demands of each step in the process.
- Paper Coating & Finishing: Employing coating technologies, functional binders, and ROPAQUE™ Pigments to increase opacity, brightness, smoothness, and gloss in printing and thermal papers.
- Foodservice Packaging: Providing RHOBARR™ Barrier Technologies for oil and grease resistance, along with silicone release liners for clean food release and packaging performance.
- Pulping & Washing: Using DOWSIL™ Antifoams to enhance foam control, drainage, and efficiency in sulfite and kraft stock washing.
- Production Efficiency: Using chelating agents to enhance bleaching efficiency and prevent brightness reversion.
Paper Coatings
Dow’s paper coating solutions help manufacturers produce paper with a cleaner finish and more consistent performance in use. With technologies that support opacity, brightness, smoothness, and gloss, Dow helps improve the finished paper while giving mills more control over quality.
Barrier Coatings for Paper Packaging
Our barrier coatings portfolio improves the performance and functionality of paper packaging, better protecting the product inside.
Coated Paper and Paperboard
Our extensive portfolio delivers wide-ranging performance benefits like balance of strength, printability, enhanced optical coverage, and glueability to help you formulate the right solution for any paper or paperboard grade.
Thermal Paper Solutions
Whether it is for receipts, labels, tickets, or tags, ROPAQUE™ hollow sphere pigments’ characteristic high void fractions and uniform particles size improve coating smoothness and enable higher print quality and bar code readability while reducing raw material usage.
Paper Packaging and Processing
Dow provides paper packaging and processing solutions built for the realities of production. We help manufacturers improve how paper performs in use and bring more efficiency to the operation process.
Pulp and Paper Processing Aids
Our extensive range of processing aids can help formulators improve foam control, pitch control, deareation and resource efficiency.
Pulp and Fiber Treatments
Processors for virgin and recycled pulp are seeking more efficient operations and high-quality end products, while meeting safety and environmental regulations. Our products can help formulators offer a range of pulp and fiber treatments to meet these demands.
Product solutions for paper & paperboard
Additives and Modifiers
Help support smoother papermaking operations and more consistent sheet performance across a range of production needs.
Adhesives and Sealants
Support paper converting and release liner applications where dependable release performance matters.
Amines and Chelates
Help improve bleaching efficiency and support brightness stability during pulp processing.
Foam Control Agents
Help eliminate and prevent foam in wet-end processes, supporting smoother operation and more consistent paper quality.
Resins, Binders, and Film Formers
Help improve coating performance and support barrier functionality in paper and packaging applications.
Surfactants, Emulsifiers, and Polyglycols
Help manage foam, improve drainage, and support more efficient wet-end processing.
Pulp and Paper Resources
Explore Dow’s silicone foam control offering.
Choose from a range of antifoams to boost efficiency in pulp manufacturing.
See how antifoam technology helps pulp mills minimize environmental impact.
Explore our portfolio of technologies for paper chemical companies and formulators.
Learn how our chelating agents can help lower bleaching costs.
Pulp and Paper FAQs
Dow supplies a range of chemistries used across pulp and paper manufacturing, including foam control agents, antifoams, chelating agents, paper coating technologies, opaque polymers such as ROPAQUE™ Pigments, barrier technologies, silicone release solutions, and other processing aids that support efficiency and paper performance.
Papermaking can involve several types of chemistry depending on the application and stage of production. Common examples include antifoams for foam control, chelating agents for bleaching support, coating polymers for surface performance, opaque pigments for brightness and opacity, and barrier or silicone technologies for packaging and release liner applications.
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