Maize Starch,India IGC price supplier

Diverse uses of starch make it a very versatile product. Maize or Corn Starch is a typical cereal starch with distinctly low protein and ash contents. Its carbohydrate content of high purity makes it of use in several industries.

Starch occurs in nature in many ways. Maize contains about 66% of starch which can be separated from other ingredients by various processes such as steeping, grinding, purifying and drying.  The physico-chemical  and functional properties of starch exhibit a wide variation with slight change in the production parameters. One of the important properties is of the viscosity of starch slurry. Normally, starch has near neutral PH. With an increase in the PH, viscosity of starch tends to show an increase, thus making it possible to have diverse uses. This is commonly known as High Viscosity Starch and is used in the textile industry for sizing.

maize starch exhibits all the properties of native starch with some special features such as non-foaming & non-thinning characteristics of boiling solution. Hence maize starch has a marginal effect on the efficiency in weaving and paper industry. Where high viscosity starch is used, it imparts higher tensile strength to the fibre and thus improves the sizing. The remarkable advantage over Tapioca Starch is short cooking time of less than an hour and uniform smoothness of paste. The foaming is also very less even at high pH.The starch has a deep penetration into the fibres making it an ideal choice for sizing and finishing.

Combined with resins, starch produces a permanent finish. Good binding capacity results in its use as a good filler and binder in tablets. It is also vital additive of most of the adhesives due to these properties. In slurry, it provides body to the food products. It also helps in retaining the viscosity of foods. Besides this, it is an excellent filler in cosmetics by virtue of its smoothness in dry form.

 

APPLICATIONS

 

By virtue of its Superior uniformity and stability of water solution, the use of starch is preferred to any other material for sizing, finishing and printing. It offers economy along with ease in filling the interstices of the weave. This provides the requisite strength and weight .

 

A  TEXTILE ENGINEER  finds it suitable for all types of clothes and yarns as it offers a wide titration of parameters such as viscosity, binding strength and its compatibility with thermoplastic and thermosetting resins for a permanent inish and back filling. Moreover, starch has an added advantage of being washed away easily from the fabric.

 

A PHARMACIST  uses starch as a tablet binder in excepient and as a disintegrating agent in  the dispersible tablets and also in the sustained release formulations.

 

Pharmaceuticals:  Dextrains are used as a neutrient source in preparations of certain antibiotics.

 

For a Householder the ubiquitous nature of starch does not go unnoticed due to its presence in food products such as  ketch-ups, ice-creams, cakes, biscuits, chocolates, wafers and drycell batteries, detergents, etc.  Starch also finds itself to use in  adhesives  and gums.  Ladies love the soft and silky feel of starch in talcum powder. Children enjoy the  blasting sound of starch in the crackers. Starch also finds immense usage in paper industry to enhance bursting & tensile strength, elongation, fold endurance, pick resistance etc. Starch  also improves the printability of paper by inhibiting ink penetration and forming a hard firm  surface.

 

                                                   Maize Starch Typical Specifications